1. Marie-Aude Murail was born on 6 May 1954 and is a French writer.
15 Facts About Marie-Aude Murail
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Marie-Aude Murail is best known for her numerous children and teen novels that go over a wide range of subjects including blended families, self-identification, mental health and serious illnesses.
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Marie-Aude Murail's father, Gerard Murail, is a poet and her mother, Marie-Therese Barrois, a journalist.
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Marie-Aude Murail's other older brother, Tristan Murail is a music composer.
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Marie-Aude Murail was born in Le Havre in 1954 and has been writing since she was twelve years old.
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Marie-Aude Murail studied modern literature at the Sorbonne University in Paris and concluded it by working on a thesis dealing with how to adapt classical novels to make them readable for young kids.
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Marie-Aude Murail earned her "stripes" at the Editions mondiales, where she published a hundred short stories in women's magazines between 1980 and 1987.
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Marie-Aude Murail writes about the adventures of Emilien Pardini, a boy aged fourteen at the beginning of the series, who lives alone with his mother Sylvie.
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Marie-Aude Murail is assisted by an ex-student of his, Catherine Roque who becomes his secretary and girlfriend during the series of books.
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Marie-Aude Murail widens the range of her production, exploring a slightly fantastic daily life first in "Ma vie a change", where a librarian comes to struggling with a domestic elf.
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Marie-Aude Murail led another writing project with her brother Lorris during the following year.
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Marie-Aude Murail revealed her motives and her contribution to this common experience as a children's writer in an interview that can be found on the website of La Charte des auteurs et illustrateurs jeunesse, an association she is involved in.
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Marie-Aude Murail has not stopped thinking, since she wrote her literature thesis, about the purpose of her work.
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Nowadays, Marie-Aude Murail sells about 200,000 books each year in France.
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In 2004, Marie-Aude Murail was granted the distinction of Chevalier de la Legion d'honneur, in recognition of her whole career.