The Modern Novel

Biography

Anne Serre was born in Bordeaux in 1960. She grew up in Fontainebleau and the Orléans. Her father was a professor of classical literature. Her mother died while she was still quite young. She studied modern literature at the Sorbonne, with a masters thesis on Madame d’Aulnoy‘s fairy stories. She published her first stories in magazines when she was twenty. She worked as a teacher and a a publisher’s reader. Initially her work was only stories but then she developed a short story she had written for her first novel, Les Gouvernantes (The Governesses). She has since gone on to publish several novels, of which only one, Les Gouvernantes (The Governesses), has been translated into English with a second – Les Débutants (Beginners) – to appear in 2021.

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