Sophie Audouin-Mamikonian is not only the most widely read fantasy writer in France, she’s also the crown princess of Armenia. Sophie was inspired to start writing the Tara Duncan series after reading Shakespeare’s play A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 1987. Seventeen years later, in 2003, she published Tara Duncan in France and eventually in eighteen countries.
Born in southern France in 1961, Sophie was mainly raised by her grandparents, who spoiled her with candy and carefully chosen French classics: Alexandre Dumas and Victor Hugo along with Corneille and Molière. Possibly as a result, Sophie started writing stories at a very young age. Stuck in bed by a bout of appendicitis at age twelve, she picked up a pen and hasn’t put it down since. Before earning her living as a writer, she earned a master’s degree in diplomacy and strategy, and worked in advertising with Jacques Séguéla at the Publicis agency in Paris.
Sophie is the niece of author and director Francis Veber, who wrote the screenplay for the movies Dinner for Schmucks and Three Fugitives. She is also the granddaughter of Pierre Gilles Veber, who wrote the script of the original 1952 film Fanfan, la Tulipe, which was remade in 2003 with Penelope Cruz.
Tara Duncan has been adapted for television by Moonscoop–Taffy Entertainment (Casper, the Friendly Ghost; The Fantastic Four) in co-production with the Walt Disney corporation and can be watched on Kabillion Channel. It is already broadcasted in twenty countries.
The Tara Duncan Show will begin on September 1, 2013, in the Gymnase Theater, and Sophie is scared to death because she will play a part in it! When not writing, Sophie divides her time between her husband, her two daughters, and the medical organization Pain Without Borders.