Stéphane Audeguy (born 1964

Tours Tours ( , ) is one of the largest cities in the region of Centre-Val de Loire, France. It is the prefecture of the department of Indre-et-Loire. The commune of Tours had 136,463 inhabitants as of 2018 while the population of the whole metro ...

) is a French novelist and essayist. He studied literature at the

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, where he also taught. He served as an assistant professor at the

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between 1986 and 1987. He returned to France and now lives in Paris where he teaches art history and film history at a local high school.

Awards

Prix Maurice Genevoix The Prix Maurice Genevoix (''Le prix Maurice Genevoix'') is an annual French literary award made in honor of its namesake Maurice Genevoix (1890–1980). It is intended to recognize a French literary work which, by its topic or style, honors the m ...

from the

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, for ''La théorie des nuages'' *

Prix des Deux Magots The Prix des Deux Magots is a major French literary prize. It is presented to new works, and is generally awarded to works that are more off-beat and less conventional than those that receive the more mainstream Prix Goncourt. The name derives from ...

, for ''Fils Unique''

Works

* ''Les monstres : Si loin si proches'', Gallimard, coll. Découvertes Gallimard (n° 520), 2007, * ''La théorie des nuages'' (''The Theory of Clouds'') Translator Timothy Bent * ''Fils Unique'' (''Only Son''). * ''Rom@''

References

External links

"Interview with Stéphane Audeguy", ''French book news''
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