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The 13 Hours went to meet Virginie Grimaldi, a successful yet discreet author. His new novel, “A beautiful life”, was released by Flammarion.
She is France’s most widely read novelist, has written the French’s favorite book and has sold 5 million books. But the inspiration of the discreet Virginie Grimaldi does not dry up. “I have the impression that by writing, I know myself better and better“, she explains. The love of words is transmitted: his mother wrote poems to his father, and his grandmother even dedicated one to him.
A resilient writer
If her novels are luminous, Virginie Grimaldi was marked by the loss of a child 12 years ago. “That damaged me. I am lucky to have had two other children behind who brought light. I’m not a fan of ‘what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger’. On the other hand, I realized how precious life was. Maybe without that, I wouldn’t have started writing books. I owe him that (…) There is a form of resilience“assures the one who admits to loving the smell of paperbacks.