
France, 1954
writer
Sylvie Germain
Sylvie Germain is a writer. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and gained her PhD there in 1981. She then began working for the Ministry of Culture, and between 1986 and 1993 was a teacher of French and philosophy at the French school in Prague, while moving in Czech dissident circles. Among her books are Le livre des nuits (1984), Magnus (2005) and Rendez-vous nomades (2012).