Édouard Louis and Didier Eribon

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Sociologist Didier Eribon and novelist Édouard Louis were both born into conservative working-class families in provincial France. Oppressed both intellectually and sexually by racism and homophobia, they each escaped to academic life at the Sorbonne, where Eribon was for a while Louis’s tutor. Of Eribon’s <A HREF="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/on-our-shelves/book/9780241344620/returning-to-reims" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Returning to Reims</A>, first published in 2009 and now reissued by Allen Lane, Édouard Louis has written that it ‘marked a turning point in my writing life.’ Louis’s first book <A HREF="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/on-our-shelves/book/9780099598466/end-of-eddy" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The End of Eddy</A> was published in English to huge acclaim by Harvill Secker in 2017, and his second, <A HREF="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/on-our-shelves/book/9781911215752/history-of-violence" TARGET="_blank" DATA-MSYS-CLICKTRACK="0" REL="nofollow noopener noreferrer">History of Violence</A> (also Harvill Secker) coincides with the reissue of Eribon’s classic memoir.
The two authors will be reading from their books and discussing their lives and works with festival moderator and curator Steven Gale.

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