Laurence Ruel (born 6 November 1957),[1] known by her pen name Camille Laurens, is a French writer and winner of the 2000 Prix Femina for Dans ces bras-là.

In La Petite Danseuse de quatorze ans (2017), Laurens reconstructs the life of Marie van Goethem, who served as a model for Edgar Degas.

Since 2002, Camille Laurens has regularly chronicled literary works in national newspapers: notably in "Écritures," appearing monthly from 2015 to 2019 in Libération and, since 2019, a weekly serial in Le Monde des Livres.

In September 2021, the Prix Goncourt attracted controversy after the jury decided, by a vote of 7 to 3, to include Les enfants de Cadillac by François Noudelmann on its 2021 list of finalists.

It also emerged that shortly after the shortlist was revealed Laurens had written a negative review in Le Monde of one of Noudelmann's competitors for the prize, La Carte postale by Anne Berest.