Salon with a View: Colombe Schneck

Colombe Schneck is a French journalist, filmmaker, and writer. Born in 1966 into a Parisian-Jewish family, she went on to study at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and Université de Paris II, and to work for various French media outlets such as Canal+, i>Télé, and France Inter until 2012. She directed two documentaries, and two feature-length films: Femmes sans enfant, femmes suspect in 2014, and Vieux amoureux in 2015. 

Her entry into the world of writing was an accident. While leafing through a magazine, she happened upon an article that described the sordid circumstances of her grandfather’s death, who was murdered by his lover. This not only inspired Colombe to write her first novel but also set her on her path towards a style of writing that is obsessed with family secrets, as well as uncovering the Jewish experience during World War II. She is an award-wining author of eleven books of fiction and non-fiction. Schneck’s diptych on a woman’s life, exploring the issues of sexuality, femininity, friendship and loss, was published in spring 2024 (No! Press).