Laurent Mauvignier

Laurent Mauvignier, born in Tours in , is a writer French. Brother of the director Thierry Mauvignier, he is a former resident of the Villa Medici and an officer of the Order of Arts and Letters.
Biography.
Laurent Mauvignier comes from a working-class family of five children living in Descartes in Touraine. He is the brother of director Thierry Mauvignier. At the age of seventeen he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Tours from which he graduated in visual arts in 1991. Laurent Mauvignier published his first novel "Loin d'eux" in 1999 at editions de Minuit, which remained his main publishing house throughout his career. The novel received the Fénéon Prize in 2000. His second novel published the following year "Learning to finish" was awarded several prizes, the Wepler Prize in 2000, and the Inter Book Prize and Prix du second novel in 2001.
In 2006, he won the Fnac novel prize for his work "In the crowd", a novel about the Heysel drama which occurred in Belgium in 1985, which according to "Télérama" 
His novel "Des hommes", published in 2009, won several prizes, including the Prix Virilo the same year, and the Prix des libraires Next year. The novel delves into the narrator's memories of the Algerian War. For the review of "Télérama" a According to the review of the newspaper "L'Express" , the work is . It will be adapted to the cinema in 2020 by the director Lucas Belvaux alongside the actors Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Catherine Frot.