Philippe Besson

Philippe Besson studied at Rouen Business School. The recorded working language is French. Places of work recorded in the authority are Paris. Distinctions recorded are Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, Prix Emmanuel Roblès, Grand prix RTL-Lire and Prix Maison de la Presse.

Besson grew up the child of schoolteacher father and a notary clerk mother. Besson was often mocked by his classmates because of his appearance, his clothes and his manners. During his final school year, he fell in love with a peasant's son in his village in Charente, but they were forced to hide their relationship. Besson attended l'École supérieure de commerce de Rouen, now called Neoma Business School. In 1999, Besson, a law graduate, was inspired to write his first novel, En l'absence des hommes, while reading of accounts of ex-servicemen during the First World War. The novel won the Prix Emmanuel Roblès. Besson's second novel, Son Frère was shortlisted for the Prix Femina, and adapted for cinema by Patrice Chéreau in 2003. The film was well received and won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival. Besson's novel Arrête avec tes mensonges (published in English under the title Lie with Me) received critical acclaim, became a bestseller in France, and won several awards including the Prix Maison de la Presse and Prix Psychologies du roman inspirant. The book was adapted in 2022 into a movie of the same name, which premiered in the Angoulême Francophone Film Festival on August 27, 2022. The novel was also adapted into a play performed in January 2023 at the Théâtre de la Tempête in Paris.

• En l'absence des hommes, Éditions Julliard, 2001, • In the Absence of Men, translated by Frank Wynne, Heinemann 2003, Carroll & Graf, 2003, • Son frère, Julliard, 2001, • His Brother, translated by Frank Wynne, Heinemann, 2004, • L'arrière saison, Julliard, 2002, (inspired by Edward Hopper's painting Nighthawks) • Un garçon d'Italie, Julliard, 2003, (which was shortlisted for both the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Médicis.) • Les Jours fragiles, Julliard, 2004, (focussing on the last days of Rimbaud, it has been optioned by François Dupeyron for the cinema.) • Un instant d'abandon: roman, Julliard, 2005, • Se résoudre aux adieux: roman, Julliard, 2007, • The Accidental Man • Arrête avec tes mensonges, Éditions Julliard, 2017, • Lie with Me, translated by Molly Ringwald, Scribner, 2019, • Un Personnage de Roman - Macron par Besson, French and European Publications Inc, 2017,

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