Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule [1] was born and raised in the town of Hallencourt in northern France, which is the setting of his first novel, the autobiographical En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (2014; published in English in 2018 as The End of Eddy).

Édouard Louis, né Eddy Bellegueule le 30 octobre 1992 à Abbeville , est un écrivain et traducteur français.

Born in a factory town in the poor region of Picardy, a young Édouard Louis found he could never live up to the machismo expected of him, but could also never quite shrug it off once he’d run away to join the bourgeoisie. Life is hard, but miracles do exist.

Oct 30, 1992 · Édouard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lycée Madeleine Michelis in Amiens.

May 3, 2016 · Édouard Louis, born in 1992, grew up in Hallencourt, a village in the north of France where many live below the poverty line. Now his account of life in that village, written when he was nineteen, has ignited a debate on class and inequality, foisting Louis into the center of French literary life.

May 8, 2017 · Growing up in a poor factory town in the north of France, he was ridiculed and abused for his sexuality, for his looks and speech, and for his inability to conform to the brutish standards set for men—a life of factory work, alcoholism, and gendered and racist violence.

Mar 31, 2020 · How Édouard Louis, a working-class gay man from the provinces, became France’s latest literary sensation — and its political conscience. É douard Louis opened the door to...

Jun 24, 2017 · Edouard Louis tells the story of his tortured youth, fighting against and later coming to terms with his sexuality in his autobiographical novel titled...

Mar 27, 2019 · Who Killed My Father, by French writer Édouard Louis (lyrically translated by Lorin Stein), is a brief, poetic telling of the myriad ways societal contempt, homophobia, and poverty can kill a man.

Édouard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy, History of Violence, and Who Killed My Father, and the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Freeman’s.