Gaëlle Bélem
Gaëlle Bélem is a French writer of Réunionese extraction. She is best known for the coming-of-age novel Un monstre est là, derrière la porte, and the historical novel Le fruit le plus rare: ou la vie d'Edmond Albius. Bélem has won the Grand prix du roman métis, the Société des gens de lettres André-Dubreuil prize for a first novel, and the Republic of Consciousness Prize. She has been a finalist for the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie and has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize.Wikipedia →