Laurent Binet

Laurent Binet (born 19 July 1972) is a French writer and university lecturer. His work focuses on the modern political scene in France.

Laurent Binet
Born (1972-07-19) 19 July 1972
Paris, France
OccupationWriter, University lecturer
EducationLiterature
Alma materUniversity of Paris

Biography

The son of a historian,[1] Laurent Binet was born in Paris. He graduated from the University of Paris with a degree in Literature. He teaches French in a Parisian suburb and also at the University of Saint-Denis.

Binet was awarded the 2010 Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman for his first novel, HHhH.[2] The novel recounts the assassination of Nazi leader Reinhard Heydrich in 1942.

In August 2012, Binet published Rien ne se passe comme prévu (Nothing goes as planned), a behind-the-scenes account of the successful presidential campaign of François Hollande, which Binet witnessed while embedded with Hollande's campaign staff. In 2015, he published his second novel, La septième fonction du language, which was translated in 2017 as The Seventh Function of Language, a detective thriller dealing with a fictionalized account of Roland Barthes's death. In 2019, he published Civilizations, an alternate history novel about the conquest of Europe by Atahualpa. The novel was awarded the Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française in 2019.

Works
  • La vie professionnelle de Laurent B., Little big man, 2004, ISBN 978-2-915557-52-7.
  • HHhH, Grasset & Fasquelle, 2010, ISBN 978-2-246-76001-6.
  • Rien ne se passe comme prévu, Grasset, 2012, ISBN 978-2-24679933-7.
  • La Septième Fonction du langage, Grasset, 2015, ISBN 978-2-24677601-7 (The Seventh Function of Language, 2017).
  • Civilizations, Grasset, 2019, ISBN 978-2246813095.
  • Dictionnaire amoureux du tennis, co-written with Antoine Benneteau with illustrations by Alain Bouldouyre, PLON, 2020, ISBN 978-2259276863.

References
  1. Valérie Trierweiler, October 18, 2010. "Laurent Binet, retour sur un succès", Paris Match
  2. "Le prix Goncourt du premier roman attribué à Laurent Binet pour HHhH". Le Monde. March 2, 2010. Retrieved October 17, 2010.


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