Name Tatiana Rosnay Spouse Nicolas Jolly (m. 1992) Movies Sarah's Key | Role Journalist | |
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Occupation Journalist, Writer, Screenwriter Parents Stella Jebb, Joel de Rosnay Books Sarah's Key, A Secret Kept, The Other Story, The House I Loved, A Paris Affair Similar People Gilles Paquet‑Brenner, Joel de Rosnay, Kristin Scott Thomas, Serge Joncour, Arnaud de Rosnay Profiles | ||
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Tatiana de Rosnay (born 28 September 1961) is a French journalist, writer and screenwriter.
Contents
- Pardonnez moi l interview de tatiana de rosnay
- Tatiana de rosnay sarah s key
- Life and career
- Novels
- Short story collection
- References
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Life and career
Tatiana de Rosnay was born on 28 September 1961 in the suburbs of Paris. She is of English, French and Russian descent. Her father is French scientist Joel de Rosnay, her grandfather was painter Gaetan de Rosnay. Tatiana's paternal great-grandmother was Russian actress Natalia Rachewskia, director of the Leningrad Pushkin Theatre from 1925 to 1949.
Tatiana's mother is English, Stella Jebb, daughter of diplomat and former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Gladwyn Jebb, and great-great-granddaughter of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the British engineer. Tatiana is also the niece of historian Hugh Thomas. Tatiana was raised in Paris and then in Boston, when her father taught at MIT in the 1970s. She moved to England in the early 1980s and obtained a Bachelor's degree in English literature at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich. On her return to Paris in 1984, she was a press officer, then became a journalist and literary critic for Psychologies Magazine.
Since 1992, de Rosnay has published twelve novels in French and three in English. She has also worked on the series Family Affairs for which she has written two episodes with the screenwriter Pierre-Yves Lebert. This series was broadcast on TF1 during the summer of 2000.
In 2006 de Rosnay published her most popular novel, Sarah's Key, today the book has sold over three million copies in French and almost two million in English. In 2009 the book was adapted into the French film Sarah's Key by Serge Joncour, with Kristin Scott Thomas as Julia.
In January 2010, several French magazines issued a ranking of the top French novelists, placing de Rosnay at number eight. In January 2011, Le Figaro magazine published a ranking of the top ten most read French authors. This collation positioned de Rosnay at fifth.