Laurent Mauvignier
In 2006, he won the Fnac novel prize for his work In the crowd. It is a novel about the Heysel drama which took place in Belgium in 1985.  His novel Des hommes, published in 2009, won several prizes. They include the 2009 Prix Virilo and the 2010 Prix des Libraires. The novel is about the narrator's memories of the Algerian War.  It was planned  to be made into a movie in 2020 by the director Lucas Belvaux. The movie was to star Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Pierre Darroussin and Catherine Frot.