Alain Defossé

Alain Defossé (11 February 1957 – 14 May 2017) was a French novelist and translator. He was born in Nantes, France.
His first novel, " Les fourmis d’Anvers", was published in 1991. He also translated several books from English into French. For example, he translated "Crazy Cock" by Henry Miller in 1990. He also translated "American Psycho" by Bret Easton Ellis in 1993. 
In 2006, he translated "The Night Watch" by Sarah Waters. Two years later, in 2008, he translated "Rant" by Chuck Palahniuk. Other novelists whose work he translated are Irvine Welsh and Joseph Connolly.
Defossé died on 14 May 2017 in Paris of lung cancer at the age of 60.