Sylvie Yvert
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| Born | 1964 Paris, France |
| Occupation | Novelist |
Sylvie Yvert (born 1964) is a French novelist and former project manager at the Quai d'Orsay in Paris.
Biography
[edit]Born in Paris, Sylvie Yvert worked as a civil servant. She made her writing debut by publishing a collection of literary essays under the title Ceci n'est pas de la littérature... (This is not literature...) with Éditions du Rocher in 2008.[1]
In 2016, Yvert's first historical novel was titled Mousseline la Sérieuse (Muslin the Serious), published in 2016 by Éditions Héloïse d'Ormesson. It told the fictionalized story of the life of Marie-Thérèse of France, the daughter of King Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette of Austria.[2] It was nominated for the L'Express-BFMTV Readers' Prize in 2016 and received the prix littéraire des Princes[3] and the prix d’Histoire du Cercle de l’Union interalliée.[2]
Her second novel, titled Une année folle (A Crazy Year) and published in 2019[4] was nominated for the Prix du Roman Historique Napoléon I, chaired by the Stéphane Bern and Jean Tulard.[5] The two journalists created the prize that year to mark the 250th anniversary of the birth of the emperor Napoleon I.[6] In it, she follows the itinerary of two Bonapartists during the Hundred Days period of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815.[4]
Television
[edit]In 2018, Yvert was a featured speaker in the show Secrets d'Histoire hosted by Stéphane Bern and dedicated to Marie-Thérèse of France, entitled Madame Royale, the Orphan of the Revolution, broadcast on 12 July 2018 on the television channel, France 2.[7]
Selected works
[edit]- This is not literature... , Paris, éditions du Rocher, 2008, 221 p. (ISBN 978-2-268-06477-2)
- Muslin the Serious, Paris, Héloïse d'Ormesson editions, 2016, 332 p. (ISBN 978-2-35087-346-6)
- A Crazy Year: novel, Paris, Héloïse d'Ormesson editions, 2019, 330 p. (ISBN 978-2-35087-490-6)
- At least the memory: novel, Paris, Héloïse d'Ormesson editions, 2021, 384 p. (ISBN 978-2-35087-747-1)
Distinctions
[edit]- 2016: Literary Prize of the Princes of the magazine Point de vue[3]
- 2016: History Prize of the New Union Circle
- 2019: Napoleon I Literary Prize from the Imperial Cities network
References
[edit]- ^ "Sylvie Yvert". www.lecteurs.com (in French). Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ a b "Sylvie Yvert : « Raconter l'Histoire comme un roman »". Viabooks (in French). 2016-02-23. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ a b "Prix littéraire des Princes | Livres Hebdo". www.livreshebdo.fr. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ a b "Une année folle". Le Figaro (in French). 2019-02-21. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ "Un Prix du roman historique nommé Napoléon Ier". ActuaLitté.com (in French). Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ "PRÉSENTATION DU PRIX ET DU RÉSEAU DES VILLES IMPÉRIALES" (PDF). LES ROMANS EN COMPÉTITION. 2019. Retrieved 2024-11-06.
- ^ leblogtvnews.com. "L'incroyable destinée de Marie-Thérèse de France racontée dans Secrets d'Histoire ce lundi soir". LeBlogTVNews (in French). Retrieved 2024-11-06.
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