Michèle Kahn

Michèle Kahn (born 1 December 1940 in Nice) is a French writer who later lived in Strasbourg and currently in Paris.

Her novels, strongly anchored in history and very documented, often inspired by the adventures of the Jewish people, draw readers around the world.

A member of the Chocolate Crunchers Club, she was appointed in 2003 as Ambassador of the Académie du Chocolat of Bayonne.

A Michèle Kahn library was established in 1997 for the youth by the Alliance israélite universelle in Paris, which also collects her archives.

[5] In 2009, she signed a petition in support of director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after he was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.