Sophie Fontanel

Sophie Fontanel has published eighteen books: Sacré Paul (Nil, 1995) won the prize for best first novel, while Grandir (Robert Laffont, 2010) and L’Envie (Robert Laffont, 2011) achieved international success. Following these were Une apparition (Robert Laffont, 2017) and Les Fables de la Fontanel (Robert Laffont, 2020). In 2021, Capitale de la douceur, a novel in verse, was released by Seghers, followed by Admirable: L’histoire de la dernière femme ridée sur Terre in 2023.

In La Vocation (Robert Laffont, 2016), Sophie Fontanel reflects on her Armenian origins through the story of her Armenian emigrant family, captivated by French elegance. In 1923, Méliné was twenty-two years old and fled the persecutions faced by her people, with a page from Vogue tucked in her sleeve. She dreams of fashion. Eighty years later, her granddaughter Sophie, a journalist, is appointed the fashion director at Elle, thus fulfilling the family destiny.