Édouard Louis
Appointments
Writer
2017 Spring, 2018 Spring
Biography
Édouard Louis (born in 1992) is the author of five novels, including The End of Eddy, Who Killed My Father and History of Violence. His books have been translated into more than 35 languages and have made him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation.
His work deals with classism, inequalities and homophobia.
In The News
- French Writer Édouard Louis Returns as a Montgomery Fellow (Dartmouth News, April 19, 2022)
- Why Is Individual Responsibility Only for the Poor? (Jacobin Magazine, January 2022)
- 'Truth is a revenge because we live in a world of lies' (The Guardian, May 2021)
- "I always write with a sense of shame" (New York Times, March 31, 2020)
- At MIT, author Édouard Louis examines the contexts for violence (MIT SHASS, Oct. 27, 2017)
- Far-right village to literary Paris — the rise of Édouard Louis (Financial Times, March 31, 2017)
- French literary boy wonder Édouard Louis on saving the working class from Marine Le Pen (The Guardian, March 19, 2017)
- Growing up poor and queer in a French village (The New Yorker, May 8, 2017)
- Édouard Louis: 'For my family, a book was a kind of assault' (The Guardian, Feb. 11, 2017)
- The End of Eddy – and why writing about life can be a dangerous game (The Independent, Feb. 6, 2017)
- The End of Eddy by Édouard Louis review – a childhood in hell (The Guardian, Feb. 1, 2017)
- The State of the Political Novel: An Interview with Édouard Louis (The Paris Review, May 3, 2016)