Twice nominated for the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, “the Nobel Prize for children's literature”, Gaël Aymon has worked as an actor, screenwriter, director and producer, and has taught theater to children and teenagers. An expert in storytelling, he has been writing albums and novels for young people (and consenting adults!) since 2010.

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Imbued with humanism, his books, written in a poetic or crude but always demanding style, challenge stereotypes. They have won numerous awards and have already been translated into Braille and FALC in China, Korea, Romania, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Germany, Brazil and Mexico.

Whether supported by Amnesty International or acclaimed in the press, his works subtly deal with subjects as varied as equality, harassment, the construction of identity, ecology or love, in a variety of literary genres: from contemporary realistic fiction to SF, Fantasy or Fantasy Thriller, via Romance or albums for younger readers. He places free will at the heart of his work, and defends the importance of complexity and nuance, as well as fear, in children's books.

His approach to fairy tales is multi-faceted, highlighting their oldest versions or hijacking them to question their modernity. Her young adult novels are imbued with numerous references, whether to the Grimm brothers, Perrault, The Wizard of Oz, Balzac's La Peau de chagrin, or the most forgotten legends.

A tireless mediator of literature for young people, he has already met nearly 20,000 students in classrooms throughout France and the French-speaking world.

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