Delphine de Vigan

Delphine de Vigan

In Nancy, 2011
Born 1 March 1966
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Pen name Lou Delvig
Occupation Novelist
Language French
Nationality French
Period 2001–present
Notable works No and Me
Nothing Holds Back the Night
Notable awards Prix des librarires (2009)
Partner François Busnel
Children 2

Delphine de Vigan (born 1 March 1966) is an award-winning French novelist.

Biography and work

De Vigan wrote her first four novels at night while working at a public opinion firm in Alfortville by day. Her first published work, Jours sans faim (2001), was published under the pseudonym Lou Delvig, although since then she has written under her own name.[1]

Her breakthrough work was No et moi (2007), which won the Rotary International Prize in 2009 as well as France's prestigious Prix des libraires. The novel was translated into twenty languages and a film adaptations was released in 2010 (directed by Zabou Breitman).[2] Following the book's success, she became a full-time professional writer.

In 2011, her novel Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit ("Nothing holds back the night"), which deals with a family coping with a woman's bipolar disorder, won another clutch of French literary prizes, including the prix du roman Fnac, the prix Roman France Télévisions and the prix Renaudot des lycéens.[3]

Bibliography

Novels

Screenplays

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