Clara Royer was born in 1981 in Paris. Graduated from École normale supérieure (2005), she became a European and French doctor in History, Slavic and Hungarian studies (2008). A full-time teacher at the Sorbonne University in Central European cultures from 2010 to 2014, she now lives in Prague as the head of the CEFRES, a center for scientific cooperation between France and the Visegrad countries. As a scriptwriter, she’s been working for several years with Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes and with Israeli director Benjamin Freidenberg.

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