René Frégni will be presenting and signing : Minuit dans la ville des songes ; Les vivants au prix des morts ; La fiancé des corbeaux ; Dernier arrêt avant l’automne ; Lettre à mes tueurs ; Ou se perdent les hommes.
About the author :
René Frégni, born 8th July 1947 in Marseille, is a French writer who has lived a fully eventful life. As a young boy he was mocked from first grade and nicknamed “four eyes,” so he abandoned his glasses until he was 19. He didn’t enjoy school and so spent his youth on the streets of Marseille with a group of his friends.
At 19 he deserted the army and moved abroad for five years under a false identity before returning to France. He then worked in various professions, including a psychiatric nurse, and as a writer leading workshops at Baumettes prison. Then, in military prison, he discovered the authors who would mark him for life: Giono, Céline, Camus and Flaubert. He also wrote his first poems there, which launched his forty-year literary career. Author of around fifteen books, most of them published by Folio-Gallimard, in his stories he explores the contrasts between human darkness and the light of Mediterranean landscapes. Steeped in the stunning views of Marseille and Manosque, his work travels between cities, forests and the sea. Award-winning and translated into six languages, his novels also appeal to young readers.
