Writer · Existential conversations
Clarisse
Gorokhoff
I write novels about desire, contradiction, life and death. I host Les Inavouables, evenings where people write, and share, what they would never otherwise admit. And I offer one-to-one conversations on the great questions of existence: the choices we make, the mysteries of the soul, our relationship with our own finitude. A way to understand ourselves a little better, and to move through life with more awareness and more freedom.
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Writing
Books
I am a novelist first: six books, from Gallimard to Actes Sud. Everything begins there. Les Inavouables and my one-to-one conversations grew out of the writing.
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Gathering
Les Inavouables
One evening, one table, one theme: regret, resentment, greed… Everyone says what they have never said, and finds out they were not the only one.
About the evenings
One-to-one
Working out what we’re doing here
One-hour conversations, in Arles or by video call.
Find out more (page in French)
Latest novel · Actes Sud, 2026
Femmes tout au bord
After a break-up, Anouk starts writing in secret to Faye, the mother of the man she still loves: an ill woman who has chosen to arrange her own end. A few months later, Anouk follows her trail into the New Mexico desert.
Prix du Cercle littéraire du Château de l’Hermitage 2026
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Iris en feu
Les Fillettes
Casse-gueule
De la bombe“[…] searing, direct and true, the pen of Clarisse Gorokhoff (Paris, 1989) goes straight into the wound […]”
My books have also been reviewed in Le Monde des livres, ELLE, Lire, Harper’s Bazaar and Le Figaro. Press
Writing · a journal in French
Brave bête
Fragments, memories, vertigo. A journal of shadows and fires, of what holds and what fades.
Get in touch
contact@clarissegorokhoff.com