Laurent Seksik

Laurent Seksik studied medicine and started his career as a radiologist in a Paris hospital. He moved on to being an editor at various newspapers, worked in publishing and was a literary reviewer for the magazine Le Point and on I-Télé, the TV channel. Before writing The Last Days (2010) he published Les Mauvaises Pensées (1999, translated into 10 languages), La Folle Histoire (2004, awarded the Littré Prize) and other books including a biography of Albert Einstein. He is best known for The...See more

Laurent Seksik studied medicine and started his career as a radiologist in a Paris hospital. He moved on to being an editor at various newspapers, worked in publishing and was a literary reviewer for the magazine Le Point and on I-Télé, the TV channel. Before writing The Last Days (2010) he published Les Mauvaises Pensées (1999, translated into 10 languages), La Folle Histoire (2004, awarded the Littré Prize) and other books including a biography of Albert Einstein. He is best known for The Last Days . See less