Awards

2022

• Premio Giovanni Comisso

2021

• Prix des Romancières,
• Prix Roland de Jouvenel de l'Académie française
• Coup de coeur de l'Académie Goncourt de l'été
• Prix coup de coeur des Rendez-vous de l'Histoire
• Prix Historia du Meilleur Roman Historique

2016

• Grand Prix de l'héroïne "Madame Figaro"

2013

• Best Historical Fiction of the Year
• Grand Prix de la Mer
• Best Book on Naval Explorations

2009

• Prix des Romancières,

awarded by the board of French Women Writers.

• Prix Vivre Plus

2005

• Nominated Chevalier in the " Order of Arts and Letters "

France.

2001

• Elected "Donna per la Cultura"

by the City of Rome, Italy.

2001

• Awarded "Premio Fiore di Roccia"

Milano, Italy.

1999

• "Grand Prix du XVIIe Siècle"

Sorbonne University
Paris, France.

1994

• "Grand Prix des Lectrices de ELLE"

voted nationally by the readers of ELLE magazine
France.

1984

• Prize for the "First Novel"

from the Paribas Bank Foundation
France

1981

• Elected member of the Association of American University Women

USA

1980

• "Jack Nicholson Award"

of the University of Southern California USA, for writing and directing short films.

1977

• Scholarship from the French Foreign Office to study in the USA.