Hélène Gaudy was born in Paris in 1979. She comes from a visual art background and she investigates the relation between text and image as well as how places influence storytelling. After her first novel, Vues sur la mer, which was selected by Prix Médicis in 2006, she has worked on several editorial projects. She published novels (Si rien ne bouge, Le Rouergue, 2009, Plein hiver, Actes Sud, 2014), children’s books (Quand j’étais cagibi, Le Rouergue, 2013) and art books.
