About Maxime Trencavel

Maxime Trencavel writes award-winning speculative literary fiction shaped by a distinctly European sensibility. Schooled in traditional French literary fiction, with degrees in science and marketing, Maxime crafts layered narratives that span millennia and continents — rooted in lived encounters with diverse cultures, histories, and traditions across more than twenty countries on five continents.

The Mystery of the Matriarchs series — The Matriarch Matrix, The Matriarch Messiah, and the forthcoming prequel The Matriarch Mission — has won eight awards including the American Legacy Book Award, the Kindle Book Review Award, and the Independent Author Network Award, and been named a Foreword INDIES Finalist. 

Maxime’s novels draw on the Turkish and Kurdish neighborhoods of Brussels, the ancient ruins of the Middle East, the forests of the Crimea, and the coasts of the Americas. The writing operates through mythology as architecture, not decoration — asking what happens when the foundational legends of civilization turn out to be only half the story.

Maxime a gribouillé des histoires depuis l’école élémentaire, d’aventures épiques à des pièces de moralité. Les villes préférées de Maxime sont Bruxelles et Paris.