Édouard Louis
Rising Voices
Why Coralie Custos Quatreville recommends Édouard Louis
“Constantly proving that telling intimate stories, bringing the ordinary to the fore, is an immensely political act.”
Édouard Louis is a French writer, born in 1992 in Hallencourt, a village in northern France, whose books turn his own working-class childhood into a study of how poverty and class contempt mark bodies and lives. His first novel, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (2014), recounts growing up poor and gay in a factory town and has been translated into dozens of languages. Later books, among them Qui a tué mon père (2018) and Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme (2021), name political decisions and soc
- Place
- Paris, France
- Recommended by
- Coralie Custos Quatreville
- Collections
- Rising Voices · Arts & Culture
