Édouard Louis

French writer · France · On the map · Writers · Born 1992 · age 34

Édouard Louis is a French writer.

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We also have a fundamental right to not carry a pain that we did not choose. Whether you’re born black or gay or a woman or Jewish, you didn’t choose it.
2019 · On being able to control your own story in “AUTHOR ÉDOUARD LOUIS SAYS THE UNSAYABLE” in Interview Magazine (2019 Nov 13), Own words
Since the rape, it has felt like I’ve faced an unimaginable battering - first in going to the police, being in front of officers who don’t understand you.
On the aftermath of being sexual assaulted and his book History of Violence in “Édouard Louis: 'I want to be a writer of violence. The more, Own words
I want to be a writer of violence…I think the more you talk about violence, the more you can undo violence…
On how he wants to be perceived as a writer in “Édouard Louis: 'I want to be a writer of violence. The more you talk about it, the more you, Own words