About

Prune is an independent reporter and novelist. Born in France in 1981, she holds a Master’s degree in International Law. She has lived in the UK, Spain, Budapest, Brussels, Paris, and Nicosia, before settling in Berlin in 2008.

Her reporting has appeared in Le Nouvel Observateur, Le Monde, Mediapart, Médor, Reportagen, Die Zeit, GEO, Vice, The Guardian, ARTE, and France Télévisions. Her work has been recognized by the European Press Prize, the True Story Award, the French-German Journalism Prize or the Prix Louise Weiss.

She has investigated the remilitarisation of Kaliningrad and the rhetoric of the New Cold War; the organ trafficking scandal in Kosovo; impunity for mass rapes during the Bosnian war; or the ecological damage caused by the dumping of munitions in the Baltic Sea. She spent months embedded with the radical neo-Nazi group Der Dritte Weg, reporting on far-right tolerance in Germany. She uncovered the systemic moral and sexual abuse within the European Parliament in the #MeToo era.

Her debut non-fiction book, La fille & le moudjahidine (Carnets Nord, 2015), is a raw chronicle of her friendship with a Dagestani MMA fighter—an asylum seeker in Germany drawn to jihad in Syria—set against Europe’s reckoning with islamic terrorism.

Her first novel, L’Heure d’été (Anne Carrière, 2019; Points, 2020), follows a Millennial couple navigating precarity, gentrification, and free love in Berlin. It was a finalist for the Prix Goncourt du premier roman.

Her latest book, La mère diabolique (Denoël, 2024), is an intimate deep dive into the case of Christiane K., accused of murdering five of her six children during the COVID-19 lockdown. Blending fiction and non-fiction, the text confronts the ambivalences of motherhood while exposing systemic gender bias in both psychiatry and criminal justice. A German edition (Eine Frau in Deutschland, Hanser Berlin, 2025) was recently published. The book has been pre-optioned for screen adaptation.

Prune was a Milena Jesenská Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna and a guest journalist at the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg. In 2025, she was a resident at the Villa Albertine in Texas, researching mother’s mental health in one of the most conservative states in the U.S.

She is represented by Laurence Laluyaux at RCW, London.