Fanny Chiarello

Fanny Chiarello is a French novelist and poet, born in 1974 in Béthune and based in Lens. She has published novels, poetry and books for young readers, many of them with Éditions de L'Olivier and L'École des Loisirs. With musician Valentina Magaletti she co-founded Permanent Draft, a London label and micro-press that promotes women, trans and non-binary artists in experimental music. Chiarello's novel Dans son propre rôle (2015) won the Prix Landerneau Découvertes and the Prix Orange du Livre, and A Happy Woman (2019) recounts a month spent in New York with Meredith Monk.