Delphine de Vigan

Delphine de Vigan
In Nancy, 2011
Born	(1966-03-01) 1 March 1966 Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Pen name	Lou Delvig
Occupation	Novelist
Language	French
Nationality	French
Period	2001–present
Notable works	No and Me Nothing Holds Back the Night
Notable awards	Prix des libraires (2009)
Partner	François Busnel
Children	2

Delphine de Vigan (born 1 March 1966) is an award-winning French novelist.

Life and career

De Vigan wrote her first four novels by night while working at a public opinion firm in Alfortville by day. Her first published work, Jours sans faim (2001), was published under the pseudonym Lou Delvig, although since then she has written under her own name.^[1]

Her breakthrough work was No et moi (2007), which won the Rotary International 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 Zabou Breitman).^[2] 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 bipolar disorder, won another clutch of French literary prizes, including the prix du roman Fnac, the prix Roman France Télévisions and the Prix Renaudot des lycéens.^[3]

Bibliography

Novels

• Jours sans faim, Éditions Grasset, 2001 (under the pseudonym Lou Delvig)
• Les Jolis Garçons, JC Lattès, 2005
• Un soir de décembre, Jean-Claude Lattès, 2005
• No et moi, Jean-Claude Lattès, 2007 (No and me, Bloomsbury 2010)
• Sous le manteau, Flammarion, 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 Lattes, 2015

Screenplays

• You Will Be My Son (2011) (with Gilles Legrand)

Decorations

• Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters (2016)^[4]

Footnotes