This is a true story, and like all true stories, it has secrets. Every family has one. The world simply divides into those who know all or part of the secret, and those who believe they have none. There are those who know, and those who believe.
This is a true story, and like all true stories, it has secrets. Every family has one. The world simply divides into those who know all or part of the secret, and those who believe they have none. There are those who know, and those who believe.
Tania de Montaigne is a novelist and journalist. She is the author of Noire, la vie méconnue de Claudette Colvin (2015), winner of the Prix Simone Veil 2015, and L’Assignation, les Noirs n’existent pas (2018), winner of the Prix de la laïcité 2018. Noire, la vie méconnue de Claudette Colvin was adapted for the stage by Stéphane Foenkinos in 2019. The book was also adapted into a graphic novel by Émilie Plateau (Dargaud, 2019) and into an immersive augmented-reality exhibition inaugurated at the Centre Pompidou in April 2023. L’Assignation, les Noirs n’existent pas was adapted for the stage in a production created at the Théâtre National de Bretagne in 2021. It also inspired a documentary broadcast on France 5 in May 2023. Her latest novel, Sensibilités, was published in 2023, and her latest essay, Un violent désir de chaleur humaine, was released in January 2026.