# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gilles-leroy
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:24:08.703Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/gilles-leroy"
name: "Gilles Leroy"
slug: "gilles-leroy"
description: "Gilles Leroy is a French writer. He studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, which appears in his 1996 novel Les Maîtres du monde as the \"Lycée Ducasse\". His novel Alabama song won the Prix Goncourt in 2007."
tagline: "French writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Prix_Marcel_Pagnol_2015_-_Gilles_Leroy_pour_Le_monde_selon_Billy_Boy_(18010630723).jpg?width=1200"
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country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1958-12-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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    url:       "https://www.gillesleroy.net"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump