Carole Aubrée-Dumont

Carole is a France-born writer who lives in Brighton. Having graduated from the drama school École Florent in Paris, she has spent much of her career working as a voice-over artist. Her time acting and reading scripts in front of a microphone informed her research into the difficult process of learning to speak and finding one’s voice. Her memoir-in-progress DUMB is the story of how the diagnosis of her son’s speechlessness made her confront the silences in her French family. It was shortlisted for the Mslexia 2020 Memoir Competition, and the synopsis was selected to feature in the December 2020 issue of Mslexia magazine. For the same project, she was awarded a DYCP Grant by the Arts Council. Her writing has also appeared in The Independent and Who Are We Now, a pamphlet published in 2019 with a foreword by Blake Morrison. In June 2023, she was selected among a record number of 1,400 entries to be part of the London Library Emerging Writers Programme. 

Photo credit: Carole Latimer