Author

Gisèle Pelicot

3 books, mostly memoir, for Knopf Canada and Penguin Audio

Gisèle Pelicot is a French author whose writing career centers on her memoir Et la joie de vivre, co-written with journalist Judith Perrignon and published internationally in 2026 as A Hymn to Life: Shame Has to Change Sides. The book is her first-person account of survival, recovery, and her public fight to shift shame away from victims of sexual violence.