Michèle Kahn is a French writer who later lived in Strasbourg and currently in Paris. She first wrote books for the young, and mainly addressed the adult public from 1997. Her novels, strongly anchored in history and very documented, often inspired by the adventures of the Jewish people, draw readers around the world.
Biography
A graduate from the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Kahn was vice-president of the Société des gens de lettres as well as of the . Co-founder of the Rotary Prize for Literature, founding member of the SCAM Prix Joseph Kessel and the Prix François Billetdoux, of which she is currently the President, she is Vice-President of the and a member of various other literary juries. A member of the Chocolate Crunchers Club, she was appointed in 2003 as Ambassador of the Académie du Chocolat of Bayonne. As a journalist, she collaborated with Le Magazine Littéraire from 1987 to 2006 and L'Arche from 1993 to 2010. She is a blogger for The Times of Israel in French. A Michèle Kahn library was established in 1997 for the youth by the Alliance israélite universelle in Paris, which also collects her archives.
Youth
1994 and 1995: Contes et légendes de la Bible, in two volumes. Volume I : Du jardin d'Éden à la Terre promise. Volume II : Judges, Kings and Prophets, Pocket Jeunesse.
2000: Le Shnorrer de la rue des Rosiers, revival of the Rue du Roi doré: A beggar listens to the story of a happy man, survivor of various concentration camps, éditions Bibliophane-Daniel Radford.divers
2002: Le Grand Dragon, inspired by an American story about the Ku Klux Klan, éditions Bibliophane-Daniel Radford.
2003: Cacao, the history of chocolate through the trial that took place at the end of the 18th century in Bayonne, éditions Bibliophane-Daniel Radford. Prix Cœur de la France 2003.
2004: Moi, reine de Saba, voyage of Queen of Sheba to King Solomon and monotheism, éditions Bibliophane-Daniel Radford.
2005: Cacao, éditions Biblipoche.
2005: Le Roman de Séville, the history of Seville from antiquity to our days, through the fate of the characters and myths that forged its destiny, Éditions du Rocher. Prix Alberto Benveniste 2006.
2006: Shanghaï-la-juive, the story of thousands of Jewish Europeans, hunted down by the Nazis, who found refuge in Shanghai in the 1940s., Éditions du Rocher.
2006: Justice pour le capitaine Dreyfus !, Oskar Éditions.
2007: La Tragédie de l’Emeraude : 15 janvier 1934, Saigon - Paris, Éditions du Rocher. The history of the Dewoitine D.332 L'Émeraude crash in 1934
2010: Le Petit roman du mariage, a journey in time and space around the stages of the Great Day, whether the marriage is civil or religious, Éditions du Rocher.
2010: Le Rabbin de Salonique, A fictionalized biography of, Grand rabbi of the community of Thessaloniki during the Second World War, a controversial figure of the "History of the Jews in Thessaloniki", Éditions du Rocher.
2010: new edition of Shanghaï-la-juive, Éditions du Rocher.
2010: Les Prunes de Tirana, short story about the trip to Albania, in 1986, of a delegation of French writers
2011: Le Shnorrer de la rue des Rosiers, Publie.net
2011: Justice pour le capitaine Dreyfus ! , pocket edition, Oskar Éditions.
2014: La clandestine du voyage de Bougainville, or the history of Jeanne Baré, The first woman to go around the world. Prix Marc Elder 2015.
2015: new edition of Shanghaï-la-juive. Éditions Le Passage.
2016: Un soir à Sanary, historical fiction about German and Austrian artists and writers who sought refuge in the south of France during the 1930s, document and autobiography. Éditions Le Passage.
