Laetitia Colombani

Laetitia Colombani was born in Bordeaux in 1976. She is a film actress, director and author. Her debut novel, “The Braid,” spent several weeks on the SPIEGEL bestseller list and was adapted for the screen. For “The House of Women,” she conducted research at Paris’s Palais de la Femme, a residence for women in need. The idea for her third novel, “The Girl with the Dragon,” emerged during preparations for the film adaptation of “The Braid,” when she visited a school for Dalit children in India.