Laurent Petitmangin was born in 1965 in the east of France into a family of railway workers. He works for Air France KLM. He now lives with his four children around Paris. Ce qu’il faut de nuit, his debut novel, won the Prix Femina des Lycéens and the Prix Stanislas and has been translated into English by Shaun Whiteside.
‘Fus was twenty-five, he wasn’t a kid. What was he doing hanging out with fascists?’
An excerpt from What You Need From the Night. Translated from the French by Shaun Whiteside.
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