Édouard Louis Journalist Profile

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Apr 24, 2024 | bibliosurf.com | Édouard Louis

Une nuit, j’ai reçu un appel de ma mère. Elle me disait au téléphone que l’homme avec qui elle vivait était ivre et qu’il l’insultait. Cela faisait plusieurs années que la même scène se reproduisait : cet homme buvait et une fois sous l’influence de l’alcool il l’attaquait avec des mots d’une violence extrême. Elle qui avait quitté mon père quelques années plus tôt pour échapper à l’enfermement domestique se retrouvait à nouveau piégée.
Édouard Louis: Your Identity Isn’t Private Property

Apr 15, 2024 | jacobin.com | Édouard Louis

Yesterday a theater director who wanted to stage an adaptation of one of my books wrote to me. He said he was not sure if he could legitimately tell my story, since he is straight and I am gay, writing about homosexuality. Here is what I answered — and I thought it would be a good idea to share it, to say once and for all what I think about these questions. You are always legitimate to do whatever you want, no one else can tell you what you can or cannot do.
Shelf Awareness for Readers for Friday, March 8, 2024

Mar 8, 2024 | shelf-awareness.com | Édouard Louis |John Lambert |Russell Banks |Martin MacInnes

Among the stellar books featured in today's issue, we look at Housewife: Why Women Still Do It All and What to Do Instead by Lisa Selin Davis, "a clear-eyed cultural appraisal of 'women's work,' and the high price women pay as working mothers"; as well as Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera, which follows a podcast's murder investigation in a small town "with dark humor, propulsive pacing, and a properly confounding whodunit." Plus, Snowglobe by Soyoung Park, an "austere, thrilling, and...
France's Biggest Literary Sensation Tells His Story

Mar 3, 2024 | nytimes.com | Édouard Louis |John Lambert

CHANGE, by Édouard Louis. Translated by John Lambert. Édouard Louis (né Eddy Bellegueule) burst onto the French literary scene in 2014 at the age of 21 with " The End of Eddy, " an autobiographical novel that announced, with aplomb, his own abnegation. The immolation is even more direct in the original French - "En Finir Avec Eddy Bellegueule," something like "finishing off Eddy," as others rendered it.
7 Novels About the Empty Promises of the Meritocracy

Feb 6, 2024 | electricliterature.com | Édouard Louis |Michael Lucey |Zia Haider Rahman |Molly McGhee

Reading Lists What do you do when you realize hard work isn't enough to secure a successful future?
an extract from Change by Édouard Louis

Jan 28, 2024 | msn.com | Édouard Louis

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‘When I was 21 it was already too late’: an extract from Change by Édouard Louis

Jan 28, 2024 | theguardian.com | Édouard Louis

It’s 12.33am and I start to write in this dark and silent room. Outside through the open window I hear voices in the night and police sirens in the distance.
‘When I was 21 it was already too late’: an extract from Change by Édouard Louis

Jan 28, 2024 | ca.style.yahoo.com | Édouard Louis

Photograph: Ed Alcock/The ObserverIt’s 12.33am and I start to write in this dark and silent room. Outside through the open window I hear voices in the night and police sirens in the distance.
Young, Slender, Blond, Blue-Eyed

Jan 22, 2024 | theparisreview.org | Édouard Louis

By Édouard Louis January 22, 2024 I climbed the stairs two at a time. I no longer know what I was thinking about in that stairwell, I imagine I was counting the steps so as not to think of anything else. I arrived at the door, caught my breath and rang the bell. The man approached from the other side, I could hear him, I could make out his footsteps on the wooden floor. ***I’d first met him on the Internet just two hours earlier.
Change by Édouard Louis

Dec 19, 2023 | publishersweekly.com | Emmanuel Carrere |Édouard Louis |Sarah Ruiz-Grossman

Édouard Louis, trans. from the French by John Lambert. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (256p) ISBN 978-0-374-60680-0Louis (The End of Eddy) returns with another scorching autobiographical novel, this time drawing on his efforts to break out of isolation and poverty. Eddy Bellegueule (Louis’s birth name) grows up in a rural French village rife with racial tension and violence, where his family often has to beg for food.