Ysabelle Lacamp was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 7 November 1954. She was the daughter of French journalist and writer Max Olivier-Lacamp (prix Renaudot 1969) and Pyong-You Hyun of Korean origin.
Throughout her roles, she was credited as Isabelle Olivier Lacamp, Isabelle Lacamp, Isabelle Olivier-Lacamp, and Isa Lacamp. She also practised in the dubbing of television series.
Lacamp presented the cultural program Hors la ville on France 3 Limousin Poitou-Charentes for three years and for seven years co-organized the literary meetings of Ajaccio “Racines du ciel”.
Lacamp is best known as a writer, publishing bestselling novels. She released her first novel in 1986, Le Baiser du dragon.
Lacamp was a member of the jury for the Jean-Jacques-Rousseau Prize for autobiography.[citation needed]
Death
Lacamp died from cancer in Paris, on 26 June 2023, at the age of 68.[2]
In 2003, she won the Cabri d'or from the Académie cévenole.
The Kiss of the Dragon, Lattes, 1986
The Girl from Heaven, Albin Michel, 1988
Spring Snow, co-written with Jean-Marie Galliand Albin Michel, 1988
The Blue Elephant, Albin Michel, 1990
Prunus flower in the land of magic gourds, co-written with Jean-Marie Galliand, Albin Michel, 1990
A well-behaved young girl, Albin Michel, 1991
Distant Paradises, co-written with Jean-Marie Galliand, LGF, 1993
Kimono Nights, co-written with Jean-Marie Galliand, LGF, 1996
Mambo Mambo, Ramsay, 1997
Kensington Square, Ramsay, 1999
The Man Without a Gun, Seuil, 2002 and Points, 2003
Cévennes, colors of the world - photographs by Jean du Boisberranger -, Rouergue editions, 2003
The Jealousy of Flowers, Seuil, 2004 and Points, 2005
prefaced Scarecrows: Guardians of the Eternal by Sergio Cozzi, Equinoxe, 2006
prefaced La Table d'ardoise, Sylvalonia 1959, by Yves Portier, Regain de lecture, 2008
The Cloud Juggler, Flammarion, 2008
Passport to Cheju, Elytis, 2010
prefaced Living and Dying on the Banks of the Ganges, a photo book by Jean-François Lixon, L'Esprit du Monde, 2012
Marie Durand: No to religious intolerance, Actes Sud, 2012
Shadow Among Shadows, ed. Bruno Doucey, 2018 (about the last hours of the poet Robert Desnos).
Catherine Bernié-Boissard, Michel Boissard et Serge Velay (2009). Petit dictionnaire des écrivains du Gard (in French). Nîmes: Alcide. pp.135–136.
Patrick Cabanel, « Lacamp Ysabelle », dans Patrick Cabanel et André Encrevé (dir.), Dictionnaire biographique des Protestants français de 1787 à nos jours : H-L, t. III, Paris-Max Chaleil, 2022 (ISBN978-2-84621-333-2), p. 547–548.
