Laurent Mauvignier
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. He graduated from there in visual arts in 1991. Laurent Mauvignier published his first novel Loin d'eux in 1999 at editions de Minuit, That has  been his main publishing house for his entire career. The novel received the Fénéon Prize in 2000. His second novel , Learning to Finish, was published the next year, It was was awarded several prizes, They include the Wepler Prize in 2000, and the Inter Book Prize and Prix du second novel in 2001.