Born in 1965, Sandrine Alexie studied Islamic Art at the Louvre School, and also Kurdish language and culture at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations.

As a novelist, she has written Kawa le kurde (Kawa the Kurd), 2005, L’Harmattan. She has also translated two Kurdish literary classics, Mem et Zin, by Ahmedê Khani (2001, L’Harmattan) and Us et coutumes des Kurdes (Habits and Customs of the Kurd)], by Mahmoud Bayazidi (2015, Geuthner-L’Asiathèque).

Sandrine Alexie lives in Paris.