Charlotte Erlih was born in 1978. A graduate of École Normale Supérieure and holder of the agrégation in Modern Literature, she taught Performing Arts at university before dedicating herself to writing and directing since 2008. From her first short films adapted from Maylis de Kerangal’s texts, she interweaves literature, live performance, and cinema in her work, enjoying blurring the boundaries between genres. She has published about twenty works, mainly in young adult and children’s literature (novels, comics, picture books), including Bacha Posh, 20 Feet Underground, The Last Wrong Note, which have won numerous awards in France and abroad. Her first novel in general literature, Funambules, was published by Grasset. In 2023, she wrote and co-directed (with M-P. Camus) her first documentary, A French Woman in Kabul (audience award at the Pessac International Historical Film Festival, Terre(s) d’Histoire – INA award at FIGRA).