Christelle Dabos is a French author born in 1980 on the French Riviera. She achieved recognition with her debut novel, A Winter's Promise, which won first place at the 2013 Gallimard-RTL-Télérama First Novel competition. Dabos is best known for The Mirror Visitor quadrilogy, a fantasy series published by Gallimard Jeunesse. The series has sold over a million copies and has been translated into twenty different languages, establishing her as a significant figure in contemporary French fantasy literature.