Born in 1949, Danielle Martinigol discovered science fiction when she was a teenager and she has adored it ever since. She obtained a Master's degree at Dijon University in Literature of the Imaginary before becoming a teacher from 1972 to 2009. One day she decided to write science fiction for her two children and her pupils, on the theme of ecology, following the rule of 3 - love, adventure and new horizons, with L'Or bleu/Blue Gold (Hachette Jeunesse).
The most well-known of her novels, Les Oubliés de Vulcain/Forgotten ones of Vulcain (Hachette Jeunesse) won the Montreuil Tam Tam Prize (Sales: 250,000 copies).
The first volume of her trilogy: Les Abîmes d'Autremer/ Distant sea depths, published by Mango, was awarded the coveted Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire and the Chronos Prize (sales: 10,000 copies, translated into Turkish).
The first volume of the series Kerri and Mégane, co-written with Alain Grousset under the pen name of Kim Aldany, Les Mange-forêts/The Forest-eaters, is a best-seller published by Nathan Poche (sales: 200,000 copies, translated into German, Italian, Portuguese, Greek, Croat, and Korean).
She has recently had two anthologies published by Flammarion, 15 voyages extraordinaires de Jules Verne/Jules Verne: 15 extraordinary voyages and Victor Hugo, la légende d'un siècle/Victor Hugo, legend of a century, for 11-15 year olds (sales: over 5,000 copies each).
Cantoria is her first science fantasy novel.
