Philippe Besson

Philippe Besson is an author, screenwriter, and playwright. His first novel, In the Absence of Men , was awarded the Emmanuel-Roblès Prize in 2001, and he is also the author of, among others, Late Autumn (Grand Prize RTL-Lire), A Boy from Italy , and The Atlantic House . In 2017 he published Lie With Me , a #1 French bestseller that won the the Maisons de la Presse Prize, and A Character from a Novel , an intimate portrait of Emmanuel Macron during his presidential campaign. His novels have...See more

Philippe Besson is an author, screenwriter, and playwright. His first novel, In the Absence of Men , was awarded the Emmanuel-Roblès Prize in 2001, and he is also the author of, among others, Late Autumn (Grand Prize RTL-Lire), A Boy from Italy , and The Atlantic House . In 2017 he published Lie With Me , a #1 French bestseller that won the the Maisons de la Presse Prize, and A Character from a Novel , an intimate portrait of Emmanuel Macron during his presidential campaign. His novels have been translated into twenty different languages. See less