Delphine de Vigan

Delphine de Vigan is a French novelist born in 1966 in Boulogne-Billancourt. She worked in marketing research before publishing her debut novel Jours sans faim (2001) under a pseudonym. Her breakthrough came with No et moi (No and Me, 2007), which won the Prix des libraires and was later adapted for film. De Vigan is known for fiction that blurs the line between autobiography and invention, exploring memory, family, and the construction of personal narrative with stylistic precision. Her novel Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit (Nothing Holds Back the Night, 2011), about her mother's life and mental illness, was a major bestseller in France. D'après une histoire vraie (Based on a True Story), her 2015 Prix Renaudot winner, is a metafictional thriller in which an author who has just published a personal memoir becomes entangled with a mysterious woman who begins to take over her life. The novel is a meditation on the risks and pleasures of autobiographical writing. De Vigan is one of the most accomplished and widely read French novelists of her generation, with her work translated into dozens of languages and consistently praised for its psychological acuity and formal intelligence.