The Modern Novel

Biography

Katherine Pancol was born in 1954 in Casablanca, where her father was working as a ciivil engineer. The family returned to France when she was five years old. She studied literature at Nanterre, obtaining a master’s and a doctorate. She worked as a journalist, first for Paris Match and then Cosmopolitan, before the publisher Robert Laffont asked her to write a novel, which became her first novel, Moi d’abord. The novel had considerable success and she subsequently moved to New York, where she spent some ten years, studying creative writing at Columbia University. She continued to publish novels and work as a journalist. It was with Les Yeux jaunes des crocodiles (The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles) that she had her greatest success, selling over two million copies and being translated into over thirty languages.

Other sites

Katherine Pancol
Her own website (in French)
Katherine Pancol (in French)
Katherine Pancol, romancière de proximité (in French)
La recette Pancol (in French)
Katherine Pancol, notre nouvel Hemingway (in French)