Angélique Villeneuve is a French author renowned for her fiction and children's books. The author of eight novels, she first gained significant recognition with her novel Les Fleurs d’hiver (Winter Flowers), published by Editions Phébus in 2014. This novel earned her multiple literary awards, including the 2014 Prix Millepages, the 2015 Prix La Passerelle, the 2015 Prix de la Ville de Rambouillet, and the 2016 Prix du Livre de Caractère de Quintin.
Angélique Villeneuve was born in 1965 in Paris. She lived in Sweden and India before resettling in France.
Her literary prowess was further acknowledged when she won the SGDL Grand Prix for her 2018 novel, Maria, published by Grasset Editions. This work continued to solidify her reputation as a skilled writer in the French literary community.
In 2020, Villeneuve published La Belle Lumière, a fictional exploration of the life of Helen Keller’s mother.
Winter Flowers, her acclaimed work, was translated into English by award-winning British translator Adriana Hunter and released in 2021.
It tells the poignant story of a family reeling from the effects of World War I. The novel is set in October 1918, as the war nears its end. It follows Toussaint Caillet, who returns to his wife, Jeanne, and the daughter he has not seen grow after spending two years at the Val-de-Grâce military hospital for facial injuries. His return is not just a reunion but the beginning of a new struggle for the family, trying to weave together the remnants of their past life into a new fabric of existence in peacetime.
Photo credit: IG @angelique.villeneuve
Angélique Villeneuve was born in 1965 in Paris. She lived in Sweden and India before resettling in France.
Her literary prowess was further acknowledged when she won the SGDL Grand Prix for her 2018 novel, Maria, published by Grasset Editions. This work continued to solidify her reputation as a skilled writer in the French literary community.
In 2020, Villeneuve published La Belle Lumière, a fictional exploration of the life of Helen Keller’s mother.
Winter Flowers, her acclaimed work, was translated into English by award-winning British translator Adriana Hunter and released in 2021.
It tells the poignant story of a family reeling from the effects of World War I. The novel is set in October 1918, as the war nears its end. It follows Toussaint Caillet, who returns to his wife, Jeanne, and the daughter he has not seen grow after spending two years at the Val-de-Grâce military hospital for facial injuries. His return is not just a reunion but the beginning of a new struggle for the family, trying to weave together the remnants of their past life into a new fabric of existence in peacetime.
Photo credit: IG @angelique.villeneuve
years of life: 1965 – present
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