Laurent Gaudé

Laurent Gaudé studied at École alsacienne and Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3. The recorded working language is French. Works named in the authority record are The Scortas' Sun and The death of King Tsongor. Distinctions recorded are Prix Goncourt, Prix Goncourt des Lycéens, Eugène Dabit populist novel award and prix des Libraires.

• Name — Laurent Gaudé • Born — 6 July 1972 • Birthplace — Paris, France • Education — Université Paris III • Genre — Plays Laurent Gaudé (born 6 July 1972) is a French writer.

Gaudé was born in Paris. After a master's in humanities at the Université Paris III, for which he presented a dissertation entitled Le thème du combat dans la dramaturgie comptemporaine française (The theme of combat in the French contemporary dramaturgy), supervised by Michel Corvin (1994), then a post-graduate diploma at the same university, for which he presented a dissertation entitled Le conflit dans le théâtre contemporain (The conflict in contemporary theater), supervised by Jean-Pierre Sarrazac (1998), he wrote plays (1999). His first play, Combat de possédés, was published in 1999. It has been performed in Germany and has been read at the Royal National Theatre in London. The second play, published in 2000, is Onysos le Furieux. It is an epic monologue, written in only 10 days during the spring of 1996. Laurent Gaudé has also written other plays such as Pluie de Cendres, Cendres sur les mains, Médée Kali or Le Tigre bleu de l'Euphrate. In 2002, his second novel, La Mort du roi Tsongor, allowed him to be cited for the Prix Goncourt and above all to be rewarded by the Prix Goncourt des lycéens and the Prix des librairies. Two years later, he won the Prix Goncourt as well as the Prix Jean Giono with his novel Le Soleil des Scorta (The Scortas' Sun) which has been a best-seller (80 000 copies sold between the novel publication and the awarding in 2004). Gaudé's 2022 science fiction thriller Chien 51 was adapted into a film by the same name by Cédric Jimenez in 2025.

• Cris: roman, Actes Sud, 2001, • Battle of will, Translators David Greig, Oberon, 2002, • La mort du roi Tsongor: roman, Actes sud, 2002; Actes Sud, 2005, • Death of an ancient king, Harper Perennial, 2002, • The death of King Tsongor, Toby Press, 2003, • Death of an Ancient King, Translator Adriana Hunter, MacAdam/Cage, 2007, • Le soleil des Scorta: roman, Actes sud, 2004, • The Scortas' sun, Hesperus, 2006, • Le Tigre bleu de l'Euphrate, Actes Sud, 2002, • Eldorado, Actes Sud, 2006, • Eldorado, Translator Adriana Hunter, MacAdam Cage, 2008, • La porte des enfers: roman, Actes Sud, 2008, • Sodome, ma douce, Actes Sud, 2009, • Dans la nuit Mozambique et autres récits, Actes Sud, 2007, • Chien 51, Actes Sud/Lemeac, 2022.