Édouard Louis
Paris, France
Rising Voices
Coralie Custos Quatreville: “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
Rising Voices · literature · autofiction · class · working class · inequality · LGBTQ+ voices · theatre · social critique · poverty
Curated by Coralie Custos Quatreville
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