Lionel Duroy

Lionel Duroy de Suduiraut (born 1 October 1949) is a French writer and journalist born in Bizerte (Tunisia) into an impoverished family of aristocratic origin who long shared extreme right-wing ideas. His youth in this environment left a profound mark on him and was the breeding ground for many of his books. (, Le Chagrin). Lionel Duroy was first a delivery man, a courier, a worker, then a journalist at Libération and at . Since the publication of his first novel in 1990, he has devoted himself entirely to writing novels with essentially autobiographical content.

In 2013, his novel L'Hiver des hommes made him the winner of the prix Renaudot des lycéens 2012 and the Prix Joseph-Kessel 2013.

Works

– 2010, Grand prix Marie Claire du roman d'émotion 2010, Prix Marcel Pagnol 2010

- Prix Renaudot des Lycéens 2012 - Prix Joseph-Kessel 2013

Échapper, Paris, Julliard, 2015, 277 p. L’Absente, Paris, Julliard, 2016, 360 p. Eugenia, Paris, Julliard, 2018, 394 p.

In collaboration

(Prix spécial du Jury Prix Vérité), 2007