Stéphane Audeguy
French writer
Stéphane Audeguy (born 1964 Tours) is a French novelist and essayist.
He studied literature at the University of Paris, where he also taught.
He served as an assistant professor at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville 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 from the French Academy, for La théorie des nuages
Prix des Deux Magots, for Fils Unique
Works
Les monstres : Si loin si proches, Gallimard, coll. Découvertes Gallimard (n° 520), 2007, ISBN 9782070341245
La théorie des nuages (The Theory of Clouds) Translator Timothy Bent ISBN 978-0-15-101428-6
Fils Unique (Only Son).
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