Clémence Boulouque was born in Paris in 1977. She studied Arabic and Hebrew. Graduated from the Paris Institute of Political Studies and ESSEC, between 2001 and 2002 she completed a master's degree in International Relations at Columbia University.
Back in France, he began to collaborate in the cultural supplement of the Le Figaro newspaper and in the Lire magazine, in addition to France Culture. Under the direction of Julia Kristeva, she completed her doctoral thesis on Patrick Modiano (an author with whom he shares the absence of the father, the “strangeness of the world”, the problems of the roots - Boulouque's paternal family is of Moroccan Jewish origin) , etc.), and it was he who recommended that he send Death of Silence to his own publishers in Gallimard.

Daughter of magistrate Gilles Boulouque, her life changed when he was appointed anti-terrorism judge after the 1986 wave of attacks, with the participation of Iran. Boulouque was only thirteen when his father, facing strong political and media pressure, committed suicide in December 1990. It is from this painful experience, intensified by his presence in New York on September 11, 2001, when the Clémence's vocation for writing. In 2003, she signed her first novel, Death of a Silence, which recounts the long test that she and her family lived through during that dark period. In 2005, William Karel would carry out the film adaptation with another title: The Judge's Daughter.