Marie
Pavlenko

Curtis Brown

Born in 1974, Marie holds a masters degree in modern literature from the Sorbonne. She lived in Jordan for a year before working as journalist. Since 2010, Marie has written screenplays for graphic novels, television and cinema, YA novels both fantasy and contemporary. Marie is also the author of an adult novel La Mort est une femme comme les autres (Pygmalion/J'ai Lu, 2018) and the middle grade trilogy Zombies Zarbis co-written with Carole Trébor (Flammarion Jeunesse, 2018/2019). Un Si Petit Oiseau, a YA novel published in January 2019 won the Prix Babelio. Et Le Désert Disparaitra is her latest novel for younger readers, a modern classic exploring environmental themes and feminism.

Marie writes full time and lives in Montreuil with her family and cats. She is particularly fond of spiders, nature, giggling and birds. 

Curtis Brown

Born in 1974, Marie holds a masters degree in modern literature from the Sorbonne. She lived in Jordan for a year before working as journalist. Since 2010, Marie has written screenplays for graphic novels, television and cinema, YA novels both fantasy and contemporary. Marie is also the author of an adult novel La Mort est une femme comme les autres (Pygmalion/J'ai Lu, 2018) and the middle grade trilogy Zombies Zarbis co-written with Carole Trébor (Flammarion Jeunesse, 2018/2019). Un Si Petit Oiseau, a YA novel published in January 2019 won the Prix Babelio. Et Le Désert Disparaitra is her latest novel for younger readers, a modern classic exploring environmental themes and feminism.

Marie writes full time and lives in Montreuil with her family and cats. She is particularly fond of spiders, nature, giggling and birds.