French educator and award-winning writer (born 1962)
Marie-Hélène Lafon
Born
1962 Aurillac, Cantal, France
Nationality
French
Genre
novel, story
Marie-Hélène Lafon (born 1962) is a French educator and award-winning writer.
She was born in
Aurillac in the
Cantal department and grew up on the family farm there. She was educated at a religious
boarding school in
Saint-Flour and, after moving to
Paris in 1980, continued her studies at the
Sorbonne. She took her
agrégation de grammaire in 1987, going on to teach classical literature. Lafon only began writing when she was 34, publishing her first novel Le soir du chien in 2001.[1][2]