COLOMBE SCHNECK is the author of more than 10 books of fiction and nonfiction, including Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories (Penguin Books). She has received prizes from the Académie Française, Madame Figaro, and the Society of French Writers. The recipient of scholarships from the Villa Medicis in Rome and the Institut Français, as well as a Stendhal Grant, which allows French writers to do research and write abroad, she also spent 15 years as a broadcaster for Canal+, France TV, and Radio France. She was born in Paris, where she still resides, and is a graduate of Sciences Po and Université de Paris II with a degree in public law.
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