Tatiana de Rosnay

Tatiana de Rosnay (de Rosnay) is a French writer, screenwriter, journalist, and literary critic.

Tatiana was born in a suburb of Paris into a family with English, French, and Russian roots. Her father is the French scientist Joël de Rosnay, and her grandfather, Gaëtan de Rosnay, was a painter. Her paternal great-grandmother was the Russian actress Natalia Rachevskaya, who served as director of the Pushkin Drama Theatre in Leningrad from 1925 to 1949. Tatiana’s mother, Stella Jebb, is English and the daughter of the diplomat Lord Gladwyn. Tatiana is also the niece of the historian Hugh Thomas.

Tatiana grew up in Paris, then lived in Boston, where her father taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In the early 1980s, she moved to England and earned a bachelor’s degree in English literature from the University of East Anglia in Norwich. After returning to Paris in 1984, she became a press officer at Christie’s, then worked as an editor for Vanity Fair magazine until 1993.

From 1992 to 2006, Tatiana published eight books in French.

The novel Sarah’s Key (2007) was her first novel written in English, her native language. At present, the publication rights to the book have been sold in 30 countries, with more than a million copies sold in total. Film rights to the book were acquired by producer Stéphane Marsil, and the screenplay was written by Serge Joncour.

Tatiana is married and has two teenage children, Louis and Charlotte. Together with her family, she lives in Paris and writes articles for the French edition of ELLE as well as literary reviews for Psychologies Magazine and Journal du Dimanche.