Silène Edgar Explained

Silène Edgar
Native Name:Sophie Ruhaud
Pseudonym:Silène Edgar, George Silène
Birth Date:25 September 1978
Birth Place:Rennes, Bretagne, France
Occupation:teacher, writer, researcher

Silène Edgar or George Silène,[1] (born Sophie Ruhaud, 25 September 1978), is a French teacher, writer, and researcher.

Early life and education

Sophie Claire Marie Ruhaud-Trouffier was born on 25 September 1978[2] in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine.[3] Her parents are Bernard Ruhaud, a writer and Josiane Danièle Salgues. The poet Étienne Ruhaud is her brother.[4]

She obtained her Baccalauréat Littéraire at the Jean-Dautet high school in La Rochelle, then continued her studies in literature in Poitiers.[5] She obtained a master's degree in comparative literature at the Paris Cité University in 2000, and graduated in French as a second language, specializing in Language Awareness in 2011 at Le Mans University and in children's literature in 2015 at the University of Artois.[6]

She is an agrégée in Humanities.

Career and research

Teaching

She taught French for 13 years, from 2004 to 2017, in a college in Saint-Nazaire. In 2017, she received the Palmes Académiques and stopped her teaching activity to devote herself full-time to writing.[7]

Since June 2010, she became a freelance editor of educational materials for DYS adaptations (Dyslexia)[8] and began writing fictions for publishing houses such as Casterman, Castelmore, Thierry Magnier, Gulf Stream, Hachette, and Gallimard.

Children's literature

Sophie Ruhaud wrote some twenty internationally acclaimed children's novels, notably in Belgium, the Czech Republic, Poland and Latvia.[9]

Her breakthrough work is the post-apocalyptic Moana adventure trilogy published by Castelmore[10] (inspired by her year in Tahiti), which won the 2011 CRILJ First Novel Award. Her novel 8,848 mètres, published by Casterman and edited by Vincent Villeminot in 2020,[11] is inspired by the story of her cousin Marion Chaygneaud-Dupuy, who lived in Tibet for 20 years and climbed Mount Everest 3 times.[12]

In 2014, she co-wrote the novel 14-14 with Paul Beorn, published by Castelmore,[13] which parallels the stories of two boys a century apart.

They continue their collaboration with the novel Lune Rousse, Les Loups-garous de Thiercelieux in November 2018, around the universe of the eponymous board game by Philippe des Pallières and Hervé Marly.[14] Then, in 2021, they will work together on the historical fantasy novel La Dame des murs, published by Castelmore.[15]

She also published three historical novels about various themes in French history: Adèle et les noces de la reine Margot (2015),[16] Les Lettres volées (2016)[17] and 42 jours (2017).

In 2019, her novel Pour un sourire de Milad in collaboration with illustrator Annie Carbo addresses the issue of welcoming unaccompanied minors. She diversified her activity towards the youngest and first readings, with On a tué la petite souris illustrated by Noëmie Chevalier and L'arbre-lit, her first album, illustrated by Gilles Freluche and published by La cabane bleue in 2020.

Adult literature

Silène Edgar published two novellas for an adult audience: Fortune Cookies, a short story of anticipation on the state of emergency, and Féelure, burlesque fantasy.

She also published Les Affamés (2019) at J'ai Lu (collection Nouveaux Millénaires), with a preface by Pierre Bordage, which describes a hygienist democraty with republican appearances, but hiding a regime prone to censorship and violence.[18]

In 2019, she published an auto-fiction, Ce Caillou dans ma chaussure, linked to her teenager novel Pour un sourire de Milad, on the theme of isolated minors.[19]

In an interview in 2022, Silène Edgar announced her upcoming projects.[20]

Other activities

She lives near Saint-Émilion.[21]

Silène Edgar also worked with a circle of writers who were friends. In particular, she founded the website Callioprofs with a group of authors from her high school, she and Cindy van Wilder being the main columnists.

She trained in a variety of subjects, like the introduction to screenwriting at La Fémis (2017), cultural mediation, etc. From 2009 to 2013, she was a permanent volunteer at the Cocyclics association, a place of art and culture for authors of the imaginary created in 2007 where she managed the forum on a daily basis, organized and intervened in literary events in person and remotely. In 2017, she produced the documentary sequence Céleste, ma planète, a philosophical tale about ecology by Timothée de Fombelle.[22]

She is also known for her research activity, initiated during her master's dissertations and which she resumed for the conference "Fantasy and History" of the fantasy festival Les Imaginales at Épinal, on the theme of Harry Potter and its link to witch hunts, social protest and anti-fascism.[23] [24] She also moderated the festival for several years with Élise Dattin.[25] In 2019, she became educational coordinator and editor of the fantasy pedagogy site of the National Library of France (BnF).

As part of the Tandem de Nevers festival, she participated in a workshop with Maëlig Duval.[26]

Works

Fiction

For youth

For adults

Youth album

Articles

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 14-14 (♥♥♥) écrit par Silène Edgar & Paul Beorn - Éditions Castelmore . 2024-07-30 . fr.
  2. Web site: 2007-05-14 . Edgar, Silène (1978-....) . 2022-05-07 . catalogue.bnf.fr . . fr-FR.
  3. Web site: RUHAUD-PONCET genealogy . 2022-05-06 . genea.ruhaud.poncet.free.fr . fr.
  4. Web site: 2022-05-07 . 2015-11-29 . fr-FR . Collège. Silène Edgar raconte sa vie d'écrivain . Le Telegramme.
  5. fr-FR. Christiane. Poulin. Beorn et Silène, les plumes de Dautet. Sud-Ouest. 2010-10-22. 1760-6454. 2022-05-06.
  6. Web site: 2022-05-07 . Silène EDGAR (Education Nationale / Cocyclics / Callioprofs) - Viadeo . viadeo.journaldunet.com.
  7. Web site: Silène Edgar - Scrineo . 2024-07-30 . www.scrineo.fr . fr-FR.
  8. Web site: Dargagnon . Hélène . 2018-09-20 . Littérature jeunesse et dyslexie: quand les éditeurs s'engagent . 2022-05-17 . www.ricochet-jeunes.org . fr.
  9. Web site: 308705138 . 2024-07-30 . viaf.org.
  10. Web site: Silène EDGAR - Bibliographie Livres - Biographie - nooSFere . 2022-05-06 . www.noosfere.org . fr.
  11. Web site: 2022-03-20 . Billom - Une autrice au collège Notre-Dame . 2022-05-07 . www.lamontagne.fr.
  12. Informal interview with Sophie Ruhaud on May 17, 2022.
  13. Web site: 2021-04-09 . 14 14 de Silène Edgar et Paul Beorn . 2022-05-07 . Echo Des Mondes . fr-FR.
  14. Web site: Silène Edgar . 2022-05-06 . Festival Les Intergalactiques . fr-FR.
  15. Web site: EDGAR Silène . 2022-05-06 . Les Imaginales . fr-FR.
  16. Web site: Adèle et les noces de la Reine Margot : 2015 le jour, 1572 la nuit... - Silène EDGAR - Histoire d'en Lire . 2022-05-06 . www.histoiredenlire.com.
  17. Web site: Roman historique : Les lettres volées . 2022-05-06 . ActuaLitté.com . fr-FR.
  18. Web site: 2019-06-12 . Les Affamés Silène Edgar de Silène Edgar (Anticipation) : la critique Télérama . 2022-05-07 . Télérama . fr-FR.
  19. Web site: De quoi ça parle ? Ce caillou dans ma chaussure, Silène Edgar . . 9 July 2020 . 2022-05-17 . fr-FR.
  20. Web site: Addictic . Les projets pour 2022 de vos auteurs - Mel Andoryss et Silène Edgar . 2022-05-07 . ActuSF - Site sur l'actualité de l'imaginaire . fr-FR.
  21. Web site: Chavant . Matis . 2022-01-21 . Marmande. Silène Edgar encourage la jeunesse à écrire . 2022-05-17 . actu.fr . fr.
  22. Book: Ruhaud-Trouffier . Sophie . Céleste, ma planète : séquence . 2017 . Gallimard . Folio junior . fr-FR . 2022-05-06.
  23. Web site: 2019-11-21 . Fantasy et Histoire(s) - L'Histoire dans l'histoire : chasse aux sorcières, contestation sociale et anti-fascisme dans Harry Potter . 2022-05-07 . ActuSF - Site sur l'actualité de l'imaginaire . fr.
  24. Jaurès . Cécile . 2021-11-30 . Littérature jeunesse : le renouveau du fantastique . La Croix . fr-FR . 0242-6056 . 2022-05-07 .
  25. Web site: Les interviews des imaginales . 2022-05-17 . Les Imaginales . 30 May 2020 . fr-FR.
  26. Web site: 2022-02-08 . decize - Un duo d'auteures connectées . 2022-05-17 . Le Journal du Centre . fr-FR.
  27. Book: Le manoir en folie . 2014 . Imaginemos . 9791091233286 . FR-fr . 897655266 . 2022-05-12.
  28. Web site: 2019-11-27 . Thisbé fond « Pour un Sourire de Milad » et nous aussi . 2024-08-09 . www.20minutes.fr . fr.
  29. Web site: 2022-05-07 . fr-FR . Le guide des éditeurs de l'imaginaire (GGG) – 4e édition (2019) – CoCyclics .
  30. Web site: 2022-05-07 . fr-FR . Collectif Noosfere . Dictionnaire de la fantasy . www.noosfere.org.
    • 2019: Book: 2019 . fr-FR . L'Histoire dans l'histoire : chasse aux sorcières, contestation sociale et anti-fascisme dans Harry Potter.

    External links

  31. Web site: 2022-05-06 . Sarah . fr-FR . Ghelam . En quête des albums jeunesse de fantasy (1) . Genre de l'édition. 2022 . 10.58079/oz35 . . Prix du jury des Imaginales 2019[30]
  32. Web site: 2022-05-06 . 2018-11-28 . fr-FR . " La fantasy touche bien souvent à nos interrogations contemporaines " . L'Humanité. [30]

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