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Best-selling books 2021: Mélissa Da Costa, the unknown who creates the surprise

2022-01-19T17:14:26.449Z


PORTRAIT – At only 31 years old, this young novelist invites herself to our annual list of the ten best-selling French-language authors.


It is the unknown of the scene who arrives without being seen coming.

We admit it: we have never read a novel by Mélissa Da Costa.

She has published three titles:

Tout le bleu du ciel

,

Les Lendemains

, and

I came back from others

.

She is only 31 years old and she is the youngest novelist on our list.

When she learns that she is there, she is flabbergasted:

“I have a little trouble realizing it.

This kind of thing only happens in the scenario that you get into your head when you sign your first contract, but there…”

She recounts her journey, typical of this generation of authors who go through the path of digital self-publishing.

“As far back as I can remember, I have always written, tried to invent stories, stories for children.”

She studied economics and management at the Institute of Business Administration in Lyon and was in charge of communication until a short time ago.

At the start of the adventure, she first submitted two self-published texts on…

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Source: lefigaro

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