Paule du Bouchet | |
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![]() Paule du Bouchet in 2015 | |
Born | 19 April 1951 |
Nationality | French |
Occupation | Youth literature writer |
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Paule du Bouchet (born 19 April 1951) is a French writer, novelist and author of several books for youth. She is currently in charge of the Music Department of Gallimard Jeunesse.[1]
Paule du Bouchet was born on 19 April 1951, daughter of André du Bouchet and Tina Jolas , Tina left the poet André and 6-year-old Paule for another poet René Char in 1957.[2]
She is passionate about music and pianist. Before working in book publishing, she studied philosophy and music, then she taught philosophy and gave musical training to children. She has been a journalist of the French magazine OkapiBayard Presse) from 1978 to 1985.[3] Later she turned her career towards publishing and youth literature. She has written many novels, including Chante, Luna in 2004, Le journal d’Adèle in 2007, À la vie à la mort, Comme un ours en cage, et cetera. She currently has published more than 40 works at Éditions Gallimard and is director of “Écoutez lire” since 2004, a collection of audiobooks produced by Gallimard.[1] She was also responsible for the Musique series of “Découvertes Gallimard” collection, and was its editor from 1984 to 1996;[3][4] as well as director of the “Découvertes Gallimard Texto”, a sub-collection published in “Découvertes” since 1998.[5] Her book Picasso : Le sage et le fou, co-written with Marie-Laure Bernadac, from the same collection, was one of the bestsellers in France.[6]
(At an interview with Le Monde de l'éducation, Paule shared her thoughts on youth literature: “Writing for teenagers involves two constraints that on the one hand, a simple expression, a clear writing style, direct without being simplistic; on the other hand, the expression of big questions, profound and existential ones that accompany adolescence and guide us as a lantern in the night –even if we are not aware of it later– in our whole life.”[7]