Nolwenn Le Blevennec

Nolwenn Le Blevennec is a French journalist and novelist. She writes literary fiction. She is best known for La Trajectoire de l’aigle (2021), Les Amies (2023), and Friends and Lovers (2025).

Le Blevennec was born in 1983. She built her career in journalism before turning to fiction. She works at L’Obs, formerly Le Nouvel Observateur. She is a journalist in the Ideas section and later became editor-in-chief.

Her professional work focuses on politics, culture, and social debate. This background shaped her fiction. Her novels often draw on media life and urban experience. She writes about exhaustion, ambition, and personal loyalty. Her work connects private stories with wider social unease.

Her first novel, La Trajectoire de l’aigle, was published by Gallimard in 2021. The book follows a stressed journalist. It reflects anxiety about work, politics, and personal collapse. The novel was later translated into English by Madeleine Rogers. Peirene Press published it as As the Eagle Flies.

In 2023, she published Les Amies with Gallimard. The novel centres on female friendship and adult disillusionment. It explores emotional bonds tested by time, work, and parenthood. The book strengthened her position as a novelist alongside her journalism career.

Her third novel, Friends and Lovers, was published in 2025. The book follows three friends living in Paris. They escape family life during a holiday in Tunisia. Years later, they meet again near the coast of Brittany. Their shared past becomes a source of tension. One friend plans a film based on their lives. The novel examines friendship, rivalry, and creative control.

Le Blevennec continues to live and work in Paris. She balances editorial work with fiction writing.

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