“My daily job, I didn’t have it thanks to them”

Amber Chalumeau has been a columnist for daily since 2020. Similarly, If the young woman recognizes the privileges linked to her family environment. For example, she claims to have made a place on television on her own.

She is the Culture columnist of Yann Barthès for daily life for almost five years: Ambre Chalumeau has been able to make her place on the small screen. Consequently, A world that she knows well. Furthermore, since her mother is none other than “my daily job, i didn’t Astrielle Saracco, former director of the original creation of Canal+, and her father, Laurent Chalumeau, French journalist and writer.

Of the origins that she does not deny: “I really try to make aware of the notion of privilege. Consequently, I think that is the least of things. It would be ungrateful. false to say that my parents did not help me: I was created for me ideal conditions where it was super simple and encouraged to cultivate »she confides in Parisian . While specifying that its place on the set of Dailyshe does not owe her to her parents: “My daily job. I didn’t have it thanks to them, for example”she says.

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At the end of her studies in Celsa (École des Hautes Etudes in Information. Communication Sciences), she completed an internship at the magazine Society. It was on this occasion that she traded with her “my daily job, i didn’t editor -in -chief, Marc Beaugé, also a columnist in Quotidien. The latter then suggested that he try her luck with the show, which she decides to do.

Ambre Chalumeau. passionate about literature – “my daily job, i didn't

In parallel with his column for DailyAmber Chalumeau animates a podcast entitled Reading listin which she shares her literary favorites. Recently, she published her first novel, The living. Already classified among the best -selling books of the moment with more than 55. 000 copies sold, this novel traces the story of a trio of friends upset by the sudden irruption of a virus, in a pivotal period of life: the transition to adulthood.

His passion for reading and writing dates back to childhood. She entrusts to Parisian : “I was a child who read a lot and I wrote little stories in my corner. »» Growing up. writing has become a real outlet: “It “my daily job, i didn’t has become an emergency or, in any case, a need, when I started to run up to new events, new concepts or new misunderstandings. »» At only 27 years old, she is already the author of a first novel. A second work is scheduled for November. It will not be a novel this time, but an illustrated version of the episodes of its podcast.

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