Édouard Louis, the author of the autobiographical novels The End of Eddy andThe History of Violence, at his home in Paris, June 19, 2018. ... History of Violence, by Edouard Louis.

French literary sensation Édouard Louis has once again mined his personal life in a captivating new book, translated by fellow acclaimed author Tash Aw. ao link Subscribe from less than £3.50 a week ...

Édouard Louis, whose book Who Killed My Father comes out in the U.S. March 26, talks about socialism, the far right, and the bankrupt center in both America and in France, as well as why his ...

In two new books, Who Killed My Father (translated by Lorin Stein) and A Woman’s Battles and Transformations (translated by Tash Aw), Louis continues to mine the personal to write about the ...

“Change,” Louis’s fifth book, translated from French by John Lambert, is about the strain his efforts at transformation placed on him. Though labeled “a novel,” its amorphousness ensures ...

In 2014, the French writer Édouard Louis published “The End of Eddy,” a roman à clef based on his childhood in Hallencourt, a small town in the north of France.The world that it describes is ...

Louis is unsure why he is fixated on his past, so he ventures into his memories to look for answers, and as a result he rehearses many of the narrative beats that are familiar to his ardent readers.

PARIS — Édouard Louis uses literature as a weapon. “I write to shame the dominant class,” said the 25-year-old French writer in a recent interview. For French Author Édouard Louis, His ...