Tatiana de Rosnay
Tatiana de Rosnay (born 28 September 1961) is a French-British writer.
Also recorded as Vanessa Tatiana Louise de Rosnay
Tatiana de Rosnay
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- Name
- Tatiana de Rosnay
- Born
- 28 September 1961
- Birthplace
- Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
- Occupation
- Writer
- Spouse
- Nicolas Jolly
- Nationality
- United Kingdom · France
- Education
- University of East Anglia
- Known for
- Sarah's Key
- Honours
- Officer of Arts and Letters
- Languages
- French · English
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Tatiana de Rosnay (born 28 September 1961) is a French-British writer.
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Tatiana de Rosnay (born 1961) is a French and British journalist, novelist and screenwriter, among other activities. The journalist was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Tatiana de Rosnay studied at University of East Anglia. The journalist worked for Elle.
Works include Sarah's Key. Languages used include English and French. Tatiana de Rosnay received Officer of Arts and Letters.
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• Name — Tatiana de Rosnay • Born — 28 September 1961 • Birthplace — Neuilly-sur-Seine, France • Occupation — Writer • Spouse — Nicolas Jolly • Children — 2 • Father — Joël de Rosnay • Relatives — Gaëtan de Rosnay (grandfather) Gladwyn Jebb (grandfather) Cynthia Jebb (grandmother) Tatiana de Rosnay (born 28 September 1961) is a French-British writer.
Life and career
Life and career
Tatiana de Rosnay was born on 28 September 1961 in the suburbs of Paris. She is of English, French and Russian descent. Her father is French scientist Joël de Rosnay, her grandfather was painter Gaëtan de Rosnay and they were born in Mauritius. Rosnay's paternal great-grandmother was Russian actress Natalia Rachewskïa, director of the Leningrad Pushkin Theatre from 1925 to 1949. Rosnay's mother, Stella Jebb, is English, daughter of diplomat and former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Gladwyn Jebb, and great-great-granddaughter of Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the British engineer. Rosnay is also the niece of historian Hugh Thomas. Rosnay was raised in Paris and then in Boston, when her father taught at MIT in the 1970s. She moved to England in the early 1980s and obtained a bachelor's degree in English literature at the University of East Anglia, in Norwich. On her return to Paris in 1984, she was a press officer, then became a journalist and literary critic for the magazine Psychologies. Since 1992, Rosnay has published more than twenty volumes of fiction in French and English. She has also worked on the series Family Affairs for which she has written two episodes with the screenwriter Pierre-Yves Lebert. This series was broadcast on TF1 during the summer of 2000. In 2007, Rosnay published her most popular novel, Sarah's Key. According to her French publisher, it had sold 758,000 copies worldwide by November 2008 and had passed two million copies worldwide by late 2010, reaching this milestone even before the film version was released. Rosnay's U.S. publisher suggests that the global total had reached four million copies by the northern summer of 2011, and eleven million copies by 2020. The film version — Elle s'appelait Sarah, or Sarah's Key in anglophone markets — was directed by Gilles Paquet-Brenner, with a screenplay by Paquet-Brenner and Serge Joncour, and with Kristin Scott Thomas as Julia. It opened in France on 13 October 2010 and in the United States, where the book enjoyed great success, on 22 July 2011. Rosnay has twice appeared in the annual list of the ten top-selling French authors produced by market researcher GfK for the French daily Le Figaro, ranking fifth in 2010 and sixth in 2011.
Composed in French
Composed in French
• L'Appartement témoin, Fayard, 1992 • Mariés, pères de famille, short stories, Plon, 1995 • Le Dîner des ex, Plon, 1996 — reissued in pocket format as Partition amoureuse • Le Cœur d'une autre, Plon, 1998 • Le Voisin, Plon, 2000 • La Mémoire des Murs, Plon, 2003 • Spirales, Plon, 2004 • Moka, Plon, 2005 • Amsterdamnation et autres nouvelles, short stories, Plon, 2013 • Café Lowendal et autres nouvelles, short stories, Le Livre de Poche, 2014 • Son carnet rouge, short stories, Héloïse d'Ormesson, 2014 • A Paris Affair: Stories, St. Martin's Press, 2015, translated into English by Sam Taylor • Les Fleurs de l'ombre, Robert Laffont and Héloïse d'Ormesson, 2020 • Flowers of Darkness, St. Martin's Press, 2021 • L'Envers du décor et autres nouvelles, short stories, Pocket, 2020 • Célestine du Bac, Robert Laffont and Héloïse d'Ormesson, 2021 • Nous irons mieux demain, Robert Laffont, 2022 • Leurs petites vies et autres nouvelles, short stories, Le Livre de Poche, 2024 • Poussière blonde, Albin Michel, 2024 • Blonde Dust, Grand Central, 2025, forthcoming
Composed in English
Composed in English
Rosnay has written five novels in English, entrusting their translation into French to others. In each case the French translation appeared before the English original. • Sarah's Key, St. Martin's Press, 2007 • Elle s'appelait Sarah, Héloïse d'Ormesson, 2007, translated into French by Agnès Michaux — a preview edition was published by the book club France Loisirs in September 2006, with the retail edition from Héloïse d'Ormesson following in March 2007 • A Secret Kept, St. Martin's Press, 2010 • Boomerang, Héloïse d'Ormesson, 2009, translated into French by Agnès Michaux • The House I Loved, St. Martin's Press, 2012 • Rose, Héloïse d'Ormesson, 2011, translated into French by Raymond Clarinard — the main theme of this novel is Baron Haussmann's renovation of Paris and the consequences for the inhabitants of the areas to be reconstructed • The Other Story, St. Martin's Press, 2014 • À l’encre russe, Héloïse d'Ormesson, 2013, translated into French by Raymond Clarinard • The Rain Watcher, St. Martin's Press, 2018 • Sentinelle de la pluie, Héloïse d'Ormesson, 2018, translated into French by Anouk Neuhoff
Nonfiction
Nonfiction
• Manderley for ever, Albin Michel and Héloïse d'Ormesson, 2015 • Manderley Forever: A Biography of Daphne du Maurier, St. Martin's Press, 2017, translated into English by Sam Taylor • Tamara par Tatiana, sur les traces de Tamara de Lempicka, Michel Lafon, 2018
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
The authorities additionally record the heading Vanessa Tatiana Louise de Rosnay. Her recorded languages were French and English. 2 children are recorded: Louis Amadeus Jolly and Charlotte Alix Stella Jolly. Recorded as journalist, writer, screenwriter and novelist.

Tatiana de Rosnay, salon du livre de Paris, 2013
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Tatiana de Rosnay intervjuas av Jessica Gedin under förhandsinspelning av litteraturprogrammet Babel på Bokmässan i Göteborg 2014.
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1961
Tatiana de Rosnay born at Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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- 1.Macmillanspeakers.com. Tatiana de Rosnay – Macmillan Speakers Bureau. September 28, 1961.
- 2.Meganfast.wordpress.com. February | 2011 | Sarah's Key.
- 3.Simek, Peter. Interview: Novelist Tatiana de Rosnay on the Film Adaptation of Sarah's Key | FrontRow. Frontrow.dmagazine.com. August 3, 2011.
- 4.Imaginerre.over-blog.com. La mémoire des murs de Tatiana de Rosnay – Imagin'Erre.
- 5.sarahskey.com.
- 6.Comment explique-t-on un succès éditorial à l’étranger?, interview with publisher Héloïse d'Ormesson, 14 April 2009
- 7.Un soir à la Closerie des Lilas, éditions Héloïse d'Ormesson.
- 8.Tatiana de Rosnay, author page, Macmillan, capture for 19 July 2011 from Wayback Machine. Accessed 4 March 2025.
- 9.Tatiana de Rosnay, author page, Macmillan, capture for 31 October 2020 from Wayback Machine. Accessed 4 March 2025.
- 10.Fresh Air from WHYY. Kristin Scott Thomas: 'Sarah's Key' To A Dark Past. NPR. July 26, 2011.
- 11.Elle s'appelait Sarah - Bande annonce - Au cinéma le 13 octobre, UGC Distribution, YouTube. Accessed 4 March 2025.
- 12."The Horror of Yesterday and the Everyday of Today", The New York Times, 21 July 2011. Accessed 4 March 2025.
- 13.The Basque coast in the footsteps of Tatiana de Rosnay (via Google Translate). May 21, 2011.
- 14.Tatiana de Rosnay.
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