Pascal Lainé
Born in 1942, holder of the agrégation in philosophy, and the author of more than thirty novels, plays, and film and television screenplays, Pascal Lainé has enjoyed a long and fruitful literary career in France since winning the 1974 Goncourt prize for his third novel La Dentellière, published by Transatlantic Arts as A Web of Lace (1977), made into a film starring Isabelle Huppert, and made the subject of a booklength critical study from Methuen (1981). He went on to win the prix Medicis for L’Irrévolution.