Valentine Goby (born 1974 in Grasse) is a French writer.
Biography
After studying at Sciences Po, Valentine Goby lived three years in Asia, in Hanoi and in Manila, where she worked for humanitarian associations with street children. She started her professional career at Accenture where she worked in Human Resources from 1999 to 2001. She never stopped writing, and published her first novel in 2002 at Éditions Gallimard: La Note sensible. She became a teacher of literature and theater, a profession she worked in college for eight years before devoting herself entirely to writing, and to numerous projects around books: workshops, meetings, conferences, writing residencies in the middle school, media library, university. She is currently a lecturer at Sciences Po in literature and writing workshops, literary consultant for the book festival of Metz 2017, and columnist for the newspaper La Croix from September 2016 to January 2017. In addition to her 13 publications in general literature, she writes an important work for the youth.
She was awarded the 2014 prix des libraires 2014 for her novel Kinderzimmer [fr][1] published at Actes Sud. The same novel received the literary prize of high school students of Ile-de-France awarded on 20 March 2015 during the Book Fair[2] as well as 10 other awards. It has been translated or is being translated into six languages in addition to French.
Valentine Goby has been President of the Permanent Council of Writers since 2014 and Vice-President of The Charter of Youth Authors and Illustrators. She is Knight of Arts and Letters.
Kinderzimmer, Actes Sud, 2013 ISBN9782330022600 ; coll. Babel, 2015, Prix des libraires 2014;[1] Autres prix 2014 : Prix Libraires en Seine - Prix des lecteurs du Maine Libre - Prix SOS libraires - Prix littéraires Gabrielle-d'Estrées et Jackie-Bouquin [fr] - Prix littéraire de l'Académie de Bretagne et des Pays de Loire - Prix coup de cœur des lecteurs, Salon du livre d'histoire de Blois - Prix Jean d'Heurs du roman historique [] - Prix Jean Monnet des Jeunes Européens - Prix des lycéens et apprentis d'Ile de France - Prix des Lycéens de Gujan Mestras - Prix des lycéens et apprentis de la région PACA
Les Deux Vies de Ning. De la Chine à Paris-Belleville, illustrated by Philippe de Kemmeter, Autrement Jeunesse, 2013
La Fille surexposée, Alma Editeur (series "Pabloïd"), 2014 ISBN9782362791031