Vincent Delecroix
is a professor of philosophy in Paris. He has written three novels, À la porte (Gallimard, 2004, theatrical adaptation by Marcel Bluwal), Ce qui est perdu (Gallimard 2006), and La chaussure sur le toit (Gallimard, 2007, winner of the Prix Valery Larbaud). In 2008 he published Tombeau d’Achille. He was recently a guest of the series French Literature in the Making at New York University.