Isabelle Hausser

Isabelle Hausser (born 14 November 1953, in Saint-Donat-sur-l'Herbasse in the Drôme department) is a French novelist and translator.
Biography.
She grew up in Sub-Saharan Africa and in Bordeaux. She graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux. She holds a master's degree in public law and is a former student of the École nationale d’administration in Strasbourg.
From 1978 to 1987, she was an administrative judge at the Administrative Tribunal of Paris. Married to the diplomat , she accompanied him in her various posts: in Moscow from 1987 to 1991 where she held diplomatic posts, in Germany, 1994, Brussels, 1998, 2002, New York, Damascus in Syria from 2006 to 2009.
She debuted in 1986 with the novel "Célubée" which reached several editions. In 1994, she received the prix des Libraires for the novel "Nitchevo". In addition to her own works, Isabelle Hausser-Duclos also translated 15 works from the German, English, Czech and Polish languages.