Isabelle Boni-Claverie Author

Isabelle Boni-Claverie (Author)

Isabelle Boni-Claverie is a French filmmaker, screenwriter, and author. At eighteen, she won second prize for the Young Francophone Writer Award for her first novel, La Grande Dévoreuse. In 2005, Danny Glover asked her to adapt Valérie Tong Cuong’s novel, Où je suis, into the screenplay Heart of Blackness. She has since written numerous television dramas and series, including the comedy Sex, Okra and Salted Butter (ARTE), Seconde Chance (TF1), Coeur Océan (France 2), and Plus Belle La Vie (France 3), the most watched TV series in France. Two of her first short films, Pour la nuit and Le Génie d’Abou won international awards. Broadcast for the first time on the Franco-German television channel ARTE in 2015, her documentary Too Black to Be French? was a hit both with audiences and the media and screened internationally. She has produced and cowritten a documentary about diversity at the Paris Opera that will air on ARTE this year.
Kaiama Glover (Foreword By)
Kaiama L. Glover is Ann Whitney Olin Professor of French and Africana Studies at Barnard College. She is the author of A Regarded Self: Caribbean Womanhood and the Ethics of Disorderly Being (2020) and Haiti Unbound: A Spiralist Challenge to the Postcolonial Canon (2010).
Joshua David Jordan (Translator)
Joshua David Jordan is Senior Lecturer in French at Fordham University. He has translated works by Etienne Balibar, Jean Hatzfeld, and David Lapoujade and is a two-time winner of the French Voices Award.