Éric Vuillard

Éric Vuillard is an award-winning author and filmmaker who has written eleven books, including Conquistadors (winner of the 2010 Prix Ignatius J. Reilly), and La bataille d'Occident and Congo (both of which received the 2012 Prix Franz-Hessel and the 2013 Prix Valery-Larbaud). He won the 2017 Goncourt Prize, France's most prestigious literary prize, for The Order of the Day and was a finalist for the International Booker Prize for The War of the Poor. Born in Lyon in 1968, he now lives in Rennes, France.