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Deplphine de Vigan's central theme is the damage that adult behavior does to children. 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 France Télévisions|prix Roman France Télévisions]], the [[Grand prix des lectrices de Elle]], and the [[Prix Renaudot des lycéens]].<ref name="bio" /> |
Deplphine de Vigan's central theme is the damage that adult behavior does to children. 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 France Télévisions|prix Roman France Télévisions]], the [[Grand prix des lectrices de Elle]], and the [[Prix Renaudot des lycéens]].<ref name="bio" /> |
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In 2015, she received the Prix Renaudot<ref name=":2" /> as well as the Prix Goncourt des lycéens for ''D'après une histoire vraie'' (''After a true story'').<ref name=":3" /> In it, the question of what truth or fiction means in the process of writing is addressed. The author befriends an enigmatic woman who slowly becomes more and more like her, while her own ability to write slips away. Roman Polański made the film of the same name ''After a True Story'' based on the book in 2017.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Briscoe |first=Joanna |date=2017-04-15 |title=Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan review – disturbing metafictional tale |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/15/based-on-a-true-story-delphine-de-vigan-review |access-date=2023-07-01 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> |
In 2015, she received the [[Prix Renaudot]]<ref name=":2" /> as well as the [[Prix Goncourt des Lycéens|Prix Goncourt des lycéens]] for ''D'après une histoire vraie'' (''After a true story'').<ref name=":3" /> In it, the question of what truth or fiction means in the process of writing is addressed. The author befriends an enigmatic woman who slowly becomes more and more like her, while her own ability to write slips away. [[Roman Polanski|Roman Polański]] made the film of the same name ''After a True Story'' based on the book in 2017.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Briscoe |first=Joanna |date=2017-04-15 |title=Based on a True Story by Delphine de Vigan review – disturbing metafictional tale |language=en-GB |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/15/based-on-a-true-story-delphine-de-vigan-review |access-date=2023-07-01 |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> |
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In 2018, her novel ''Loyalties'' was published, which tells the story of young Theo, who suffers from difficult family circumstances after his parents' divorce. Out of excessive demands, he begins to drink alcohol in large quantities. He falls into a fatal downward spiral, into which he drags his best friend.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Myerson |first=Julie |date=2019-01-13 |title=Loyalties by Delphine de Vigan – review |language=en-GB |work=The Observer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jan/13/loyalties-delphine-de-vigan-review |access-date=2023-07-01 |issn=0029-7712}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hughes |first=Sarah |date=2019-01-04 |title=Delphine de Vigan on new novel Loyalties: 'I’m interested in insidious violence, the kind that doesn’t leave traces' |url=https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/author-delphine-de-vigan-loyalties-insidious-violence-242403 |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=inews.co.uk |language=en}}</ref> |
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In her 2019 novel ''Les Gratitudes'' (''Gratitudes''), de Vigan tells of a woman who loses her speech in old age. She thinks back to the couple who rescued her, the child Mishka, from the Nazis at the time, and is increasingly filled with a desire to thank them for it after the fact.<ref>{{Cite news |last=East |first=Ben |date=2021-01-10 |title=In brief: Gratitude; Icebound; Amnesty – reviews |language=en-GB |work=The Observer |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/jan/10/in-brief-gratitude-icebound-amnesty-reviews |access-date=2023-07-01 |issn=0029-7712}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Gratitude: Powerful portrait of old age resonates long after reading |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/gratitude-powerful-portrait-of-old-age-resonates-long-after-reading-1.4450400 |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref> |
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In her most recent novel, ''The Children Are Kings'' (2022), Vigan uses a detective story to address the lives of child influencers who are marketed to by their mother on [[YouTube]]. The filming of the adaptation of the novel is currently in preparation by [[Disney+]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Jenkins |first=Betty |date=2023-07-01 |title=Disney+ will serialize the novel 'Children are kings' by Delphine de Vigan - 24 News Bulletin |url=https://24newsbulletin.com/entertainment/70948.html |access-date=2023-07-01 |website=https://24newsbulletin.com |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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==Bibliography== |
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== Decorations == |
== Decorations == |
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* 2006 Prix Saint-Valentin<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-05-14|author=Actu/Monde du livre|date=2006-02-03|language=fr|title=Delphine de Vigan lauréate du prix Saint-Valentin|url=http://www.buzz-litteraire.com/2006020344-delphine-vigan-laureate-du-prix-saint-valentin/}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> |
* 2006 Prix Saint-Valentin<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-05-14|author=Actu/Monde du livre|date=2006-02-03|language=fr|title=Delphine de Vigan lauréate du prix Saint-Valentin|url=http://www.buzz-litteraire.com/2006020344-delphine-vigan-laureate-du-prix-saint-valentin/}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> |
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* 2008 Prix des Libraires<ref name=":1">{{cite web|access-date=2021-05-14|author=Librairies Sorcières|language=fr|title=www.librairies-sorcieres.fr|url=https://www.librairies-sorcieres.fr/article/687673/commentaires/}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> |
* 2008 Prix des Libraires<ref name=":1">{{cite web|access-date=2021-05-14|author=Librairies Sorcières|language=fr|title=www.librairies-sorcieres.fr|url=https://www.librairies-sorcieres.fr/article/687673/commentaires/}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> |
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* 2015 Prix Renaudot<ref name=":2">{{citation|access-date=2021-05-14|date=2015-11-03|periodical=Le Monde.fr|title=Le prix Renaudot à « D’après une histoire vraie », de Delphine de Vigan|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2015/11/03/le-prix-renaudot-a-d-apres-une-histoire-vraie-de-delphine-de-vigan_4802331_3260.html}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> |
* 2015 Prix Renaudot<ref name=":2">{{citation|access-date=2021-05-14|date=2015-11-03|periodical=Le Monde.fr|title=Le prix Renaudot à « D’après une histoire vraie », de Delphine de Vigan|url=https://www.lemonde.fr/livres/article/2015/11/03/le-prix-renaudot-a-d-apres-une-histoire-vraie-de-delphine-de-vigan_4802331_3260.html}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> |
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* 2015 Prix Goncourt des lycéens<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-05-14|date=2015-12-01|language=fr|title=Prix Goncourt des lycéens : Delphine de Vigan lauréate|url=https://www.hachette.fr/actualites/prix-goncourt-des-lyceens-delphine-de-vigan-laureate}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> |
* 2015 Prix Goncourt des lycéens<ref>{{cite web|access-date=2021-05-14|date=2015-12-01|language=fr|title=Prix Goncourt des lycéens : Delphine de Vigan lauréate|url=https://www.hachette.fr/actualites/prix-goncourt-des-lyceens-delphine-de-vigan-laureate}}<!-- auto-translated by Module:CS1 translator --></ref> |
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⚫ | * 2016 [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres|Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Culture Communication |url=http://www.culturecommunication.gouv.fr/Ministere/Services-rattaches-a-la-ministre/Section-des-distinctions-honorifiques/Arretes-de-Nominations-dans-l-ordre-des-Arts-et-des-Lettres/Nomination-dans-l-ordre-des-Arts-et-des-Lettres-janvier-2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605065819/http://www.culturecommunication.gouv.fr/Ministere/Services-rattaches-a-la-ministre/Section-des-distinctions-honorifiques/Arretes-de-Nominations-dans-l-ordre-des-Arts-et-des-Lettres/Nomination-dans-l-ordre-des-Arts-et-des-Lettres-janvier-2016 |archive-date=5 June 2016 |access-date=3 April 2016}}</ref> |
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Delphine de Vigan
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Born | (1966-03-01) 1 March 1966 (age 58) 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 Goncourt des Lycéens Prix des libraires (2009) |
Partner | François Busnel |
Children | 2 |
Delphine de Vigan (born 1 March 1966) is a an internationally known French novelist who has won several awards.[1]
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.[2]
Her breakthrough work was No et moi (2007), in which she depicts the life of a young homeless woman from the point of view of a highly gifted thirteen-year-old girl. The book which won the Rotary International Prize[3] in 2009 as well as France's prestigious Prix des libraires[4]. 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.[5]
Deplphine de Vigan's central theme is the damage that adult behavior does to children. 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, the Grand prix des lectrices de Elle, and the Prix Renaudot des lycéens.[2]
In 2015, she received the Prix Renaudot[6] as well as the Prix Goncourt des lycéens for D'après une histoire vraie (After a true story).[7] In it, the question of what truth or fiction means in the process of writing is addressed. The author befriends an enigmatic woman who slowly becomes more and more like her, while her own ability to write slips away. Roman Polański made the film of the same name After a True Story based on the book in 2017.[8]
In 2018, her novel Loyalties was published, which tells the story of young Theo, who suffers from difficult family circumstances after his parents' divorce. Out of excessive demands, he begins to drink alcohol in large quantities. He falls into a fatal downward spiral, into which he drags his best friend.[9][10]
In her 2019 novel Les Gratitudes (Gratitudes), de Vigan tells of a woman who loses her speech in old age. She thinks back to the couple who rescued her, the child Mishka, from the Nazis at the time, and is increasingly filled with a desire to thank them for it after the fact.[11][12]
In her most recent novel, The Children Are Kings (2022), Vigan uses a detective story to address the lives of child influencers who are marketed to by their mother on YouTube. The filming of the adaptation of the novel is currently in preparation by Disney+.[13]
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