Laurent Mauvignier

The recorded working language is French. The Night of the Hunter, The Visitors and Day of the Outlaw are recorded as an influence. Residence is recorded at Descartes. Distinctions recorded are Fénéon Prize for literature, Prix du Livre Inter, Wepler prize and Prix du roman Fnac.

• Name — Laurent Mauvignier • Born — 6 July 1967 • Birthplace — Tours, France • Family — Thierry Mauvignier (brother) • Awards — Prix Goncourt (2025) • Occupation — Writer (prose and theatre)

After studying visual arts at the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours, Laurent Mauvignier decided to become a writer in the 1990s following the advice of Tanguy Viel, a friend and novelist. To date, all of his works have been published by Les Éditions de Minuit, where, along with Jean Echenoz, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Marie NDiaye and Éric Chevillard, Laurent Mauvignier is associated with the so-called « Style [des éditions de] Minuit ». The English translation of Histoires de la nuit by Daniel Levin Becker, published as The Birthday Party, was longlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize. In November 2025 Mauvignier won the Prix Goncourt for La Maison vide (The Empty House), a 750-page family saga spanning more than a century, inspired by stories of his father's family that he heard in childhood.

• Loin d'eux, éditions de Minuit, 1999, – Prix Fénéon 2000 • Apprendre à finir, éditions de Minuit, 2000, – Prix Wepler 2001; Inter Book Prize 2001 • Ceux d'à côté, éditions de Minuit, 2002, • Plus sale, Inventaire-invention, 2002, • Seuls, éditions de Minuit, 2004, • Le Lien, éditions de Minuit, 2005, • Dans la foule, éditions de Minuit, 2006, – Prix du roman Fnac 2006 • Des hommes, éditions de Minuit, 2009, – Prix Virilo 2009; Prix des libraires 2010 • Un jour dans la vie, édité par la librairie Passages, 2010, • Ce que j'appelle oubli, éditions de Minuit, 2011, • Autour du monde, éditions de Minuit, 2014, – Prix Amerigo-Vespucci 2014 • Retour à Berratham, éditions de Minuit, 2015, • Histoires de la nuit, éditions de Minuit, 2020 (The Birthday Party) • La Maison vide (The Empty House), éditions de Minuit, 2025 – Prix Goncourt 2025 Translated works: • The Birthday Party [Histoires de la nuit], Transit Books, 2023,. • In the Crowd [Dans la foule], Faber and Faber, 2008,. • The Wound [Des hommes], University of Nebraska Press, 2015,. • Ελληνική μετάφραση:(Greek Translation) Αυτό που εγώ ονομάζω λήθη, μετάφρ. Σπύρος Γιανναράς, εκδ. «`Αγρα», Αθήνα 2014, 75 σελ., ISBN 978-960-505-141-9

• Tout mon amour, éditions de Minuit, 2012,.