Born in 1973 in Paris, Gaëlle Nohant is a French author. Her first novel, L'ancre des rêves, published in 2007, was awarded the Prix Encre Marine. She then won the Livre de Poche Readers' Prize in 2016 with La part des flammes, then the Librarians' Prize in 2018 with Légende d'un dormeur éveillé.