Delphine de Vigan (born 1 March 1966) is a French novelist.

Life and career

De Vigan wrote her first four novels by night while working at a

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by day. Her first published work, ''Jours sans faim'' (2001), was published under the

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Lou Delvig, although since then she has written under her own name. Her breakthrough work was ''No et moi'' (2007), which won the

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Prize in 2009 as well as France's prestigious Prix des libraires. The novel was translated into twenty languages and a film adaptation was released in 2010 ('' No et moi'' directed by

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). Following the book's success, she became a full-time professional writer. In 2011, her novel ''Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit'' ("Nothing holds back the night"), which deals with a family coping with a woman's

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, won another clutch of French literary prizes, including the prix du roman Fnac, the prix Roman France Télévisions, the

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, and the Prix Renaudot des lycéens.

Bibliography

Novels

*''Jours sans faim'',

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, 2001 (under the pseudonym Lou Delvig) *''Les Jolis Garçons'',

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, 2005 *''Un soir de décembre'', Jean-Claude Lattès, 2005 *''No et moi'', Jean-Claude Lattès, 2007 (''No and me'', Bloomsbury 2010) *''Sous le manteau'',

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, 2008 (contributor) *''Les Heures souterraines'', Jean-Claude Lattès, 2009 (''Underground Time'', Bloomsbury 2011) *''Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit'', Jean-Claude Lattès, 2011 (''Nothing Holds Back the Night'', Bloomsbury 2014) *''D'après une histoire vraie'', Jean-Claude Lattès, 2015 (''Based on a True Story'', Bloomsbury 2017) *''Les Loyautés'', Jean-Claude Lattès, 2018 (''Loyalties'', Bloomsbury 2019) *''Les Gratitudes'', Jean-Claude Lattès, 2019 *''Les enfants sont rois'', Gallimard 2021

Screenplays

*''

You Will Be My Son ''You Will Be My Son'' (french: Tu seras mon fils), is a French tragedy film directed by Gilles Legrand. It is co-written by Legrand, Sandrine Cayron, and Delphine de Vigan, and stars Niels Arestrup and Lorànt Deutsch in the main roles. It was ...

'' (2011) (with Gilles Legrand)

Decorations

* Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (10/02/2016).

Footnotes

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vigan, Delphine de People from Boulogne-Billancourt 1966 births 21st-century French novelists 21st-century French women writers Prix Renaudot winners Prix des libraires winners Prix Goncourt des lycéens winners Living people Officiers of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres