Solène Coutaudier, 14 years old, was at the Touget Book Fair

For its 2nd edition, the Touget Book Fair organized by the local Libre de Lire association brought together a collection of authors, veterans of the 1st edition and many new ones for a lively and friendly fair.

Among all the exhibitors was a reserved 14-year-old girl standing near her mother, Solène Coutaudier, the youngest author at the show. The latter started writing texts at the age of 9 and, since then, she has not stopped.

Her book, “Memories of an Awakening and Other Stories” (Ed. Le Lys bleu), is a collection of tales born from the observation of her daily life, drawing its sources from her readings such as “Les Cahiers d’Esther-Histoire of my 12 years” by Riad Sattouf, or the Books of the Countess of Ségur and in particular “The Memoirs of a Donkey” that his mother reads to him in the evening.

“I write without making a plan, I follow my imagination. In this story, I talk about a little girl with a disability who one day discovers in her mail a gift given by her older cousin: a lovely alarm clock that this one gave up for the latest fashionable phone…”. Solène Coutaudier has this alarm clock on her bedside table and she gives him the floor. It's called Kouik Gulli 2.0. Another story from the book, “The Adventures of Chouettia, the little owl” who, following the sudden disappearance of her brothers and sisters in her care, does everything possible to find them.

Solène Coutaudier has other projects but from now on, she is putting her energy into preparing for the college certificate.