Biography

Nelly Alard is an actress and screenwriter.

"One morning, listening to a message on her answering machine, the narrator learns the death of her father.Then a sense of relief overcomes her." (Introduction by the editor)

I heard the news this morning, listening to the answering machine. Isa said, Dad is dead I made a coffee and I called her back and then I dialed the number of Air France. Thierry came in yawning, looked at me and said, What's going on? I said, Dad has died. lsa said deceased. I say, dead. I do not see why I should be tactful. Since the time the idea of death has been with me, I would not say it has become familiar to me, no, but I have the right to call it by its name. You are dead. Finally.

"For her literary debut, Nelly Alard gets a grip of a universal and eternal subject. Her simple sentences and sharp eye sometimes remind us a bit of Annie Ernaux in her debut. Terrible and just Le crieur de nuit manages to describe the torments of childhood, the difficulty to overcome ones fears and make peace with ones demons in a few pages." (Alexandre Fillon, Livres Hebdo)