For several years, Virginie Grimaldi has been one of the biggest book sellers in France. But what do we know about the discreet novelist, guest on A Sunday in the Country?
Who has never heard of Virginie Grimaldi? The novelist became famous for her feel-good novels with poetic titles like The scent of happiness is stronger in the rain, It's high time to light the stars again or When our memories come dancing. Here's everything you need to know about the author who sells several million copies of books.
Who is Virginie Grimaldi's husband?
Virginie Grimaldi has been married since 2009 to a man named Arnold. In the podcast Blisswe learn that they met in Toulouse. “I was in training for my job and he worked in the building where the training was taking place. He had long hair, he wore sweaters like Irish sweaters that I found very ugly, but he was so nice!” she said, laughing.
She smoked and he didn't, but he came to meet her during her cigarette break. “We immediately hit it off on a friendly level” she continued. They continued the platonic relationship until the day it changed. “We got together and it was very strong, very quickly” she confided.
Does Virginie Grimaldi have children?
Virginie Grimaldi was pregnant with her first child in 2010 with her husband. Unfortunately, at two weeks to go, she no longer felt her son moving in her belly. At the hospital, she underwent tests and was told that the pregnancy had ended. “The sky fell on my head” she recalled on Clémentine Galey's microphone. Her labor was induced two days later. “It’s hard, coming home with an empty stomach and empty arms.”
The novelist then had a son born in 2012 and a second boy born prematurely, in 2019. Another very stressful moment. “We were extremely afraid, we were told about his life-threatening prognosis, we thought we were going to lose him…” she said in 2020 in The Parisian speaking of his second son.
Virginie Grimaldi still in shock over the death of her father
Virginie Grimaldi lost her father in 2023. He suffered from Alzheimer's disease. “The pain is still intense. When she grabs me, I feel like it's splitting my chest open and I'm never going to get up again.“, she confided in April 2024 to Léa Salamé on France Inter.
The lover of words even recounted her grief in her novel Bigger than the sky. This loss allowed her to discover everything she had inherited from him. “His humor. It was our language” she shared. Moreover, she confided that when her parents separated, her dad was devastated and she made him laugh to cheer him up.
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