Éric Reinhardt

Éric Reinhardt (born 2 April 1965) is a French writer and publisher currently living in Paris.

Early life Reinhardt grew up in a middle-class family approximately 30 kilometres from Paris in Corbeil-Essonnes. He attended preparatory classes in Paris at Collège-lycée Jacques-Decour before studying at ISG Business School with the aim of finding employment in the publishing world. He worked at publishing houses , Albin Michel, and .

Novelist Reinhardt began writing while working in publishing and published his first novel Demi-sommeil in 1998 with . Demi-sommeil explored dealing with the loss of childhood and love. Le Moral des ménages, published in 2002 by Editions Stock is a critique of the middle class. Existence (2004), Cendrillon (2007) and Le Système Victoria (2011) continued in this vein, subjects covered included globalisation, world finance and the diktat of social achievement. L'Amour et les forêts (2014), Reinhardt's first novel published by Gallimard represented a change in topic to the world of the intimate in the spirit of Gustave Flaubert and Guy de Maupassant. Selling more than 100,000 copies, this novel won both Le Prix Renaudot des lycéens and Le Prix Roman France Télévisions in 2014.

A blend of truth and fiction, La Chambre des époux (2017) covered his wife's experience with breast cancer and his fear of losing her. Comédies françaises (2020) is a novel based on real events about the development of the internet and the impact of lobbyist Ambroise Roux who convinced Valery Giscard d'Estaing to halt French efforts based on the ideas of Louis Pouzin. Comédies françaises was nominated for the , the Prix Interallié, the Prix Medicis and won the ex aequo with Constance Debré's Love me tender.