Marien Defalvard is a French novelist, born on 20 February 1992 in

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. In 2007–2008, he wrote his first novel. In 2011, he received the

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literary prize,

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and the

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prize from

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Biography

Origins and training

The son of an economist, Marien Defalvard was born on 20 February 1992 in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He spent his childhood in

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discovers "a sumptuous and well-mannered prose", Jérôme Dupuis calls it "indigestible pavement". In spite of these contrasting reactions, ‘Du temps qu’on existait’ caught the attention of the critics on the occasion of the literary re-entry 2011 alongside the French art of the war of Alexis Jenni: the novel received the prices of Flore and the first novel, and appears in the first selection of Renaudot and December. After the publication of this first novel, Marien Defalvard abandoned writing, and only returned to it in 2014–15. In 2016, he published a first collection of poems,

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Works

* Du temps qu’on existait: novel, Paris, Grasset, 2011 (reprinted 2012), 372 p. (). * Narthex: poems, Paris, Exils, coll. "

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", 2016, 235 p. ().

References

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