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Collapse by Édouard Louis review – coming to terms with a brother’s death

In the latest autofictional instalment of his family saga, the French writer makes sense of his sibling’s violent homophobia and short life

The Guardian - UK

How studying friendship has changed the way I understand my own loneliness

A few years ago, I had just moved into a house.

The Conversation

Maggie & Me review – Damian Barr’s raw memoir gets an overcooked staging

Thatcher stalks the stage like an untamed monster, but the rest of Barr’s account of growing up gay in the 80s is sentimentalised and soppy

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French author steps up to fight at Adelaide Festival

Best-selling writer Édouard Louis, who says his art begins with social violence, stars in a stage adaptation of his novel about his father.

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Change: A Novel by Édouard Louis review – a knack for dramatising filial strife

The French writer’s latest work of autofiction, about the fallout from betraying his working-class roots, contains electric scene-making along with reckless hyperbole

The Guardian - UK

Change by Édouard Louis review – the revenge of Eddy

This latest autofictional instalment explores an escape from a deprived community in rural France to a new life in the city

The Guardian - UK

Édouard Louis: ‘All my writing is political – and all my life is, too’

Ten years on from his first, brutal autofiction about growing up gay in a working-class village, the writer talks about his new novel, being a class defector – and how to take on Marine Le Pen

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‘When I was 21 it was already too late’: an extract from Change by Édouard Louis

In this short passage from his new novel, the French writer examines his compulsion to write about his own life

The Guardian - UK

How autofiction turns the personal into the political

It is timely that the 2022 Nobel Prize for Literature went to French writer Annie Ernaux.

The Conversation

Who Killed My Father at the Young Vic review: Ivo van Hove’s Édouard Louis adaptation is bleak but loving

Hans Kesting’s brilliant physical performance anchors this gripping one-man show

Evening Standard

Who Killed My Father review – powerful study of class, cruelty and kin

Hans Kesting is spellbinding as an anguished man facing up to his abusive father in Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of the book by Édouard Louis

The Guardian - UK

A Woman’s Battles and Transformations by Édouard Louis review – portrait of a mother’s darkest days

The candid French novelist is torn between sympathy and hurt in this quietly heartbreaking memoir about his mother’s troubled early adulthood

The Guardian - UK

Author Édouard Louis: ‘Progressives can’t just sit back and say, “Isn’t the rise of the far right awful?”’

The French literary star talks about growing up in poverty and his mother’s escape from the abusive marriage that haunted his childhood

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