Biography
Clara Royer is a French writer and screenwriter. She co-wrote the screenplay for Son of Saul (2015) with director László Nemes, and the pair later collaborated on Sunset (2018).
Born in 1981 in Paris, Royer graduated from the École normale supérieure in 2005 and completed a doctorate in history, Slavic and Hungarian studies in 2008. She lectured at Sorbonne University in Central European cultures until 2014 and has lived in Prague, where she directed the French Research Centre in Humanities (CEFRES). She is also the author of the novel Csillag (2011).
