Delphine de Vigan

Delphine de Vigan (* 1966 in Paris ) is a French writer.

Delphine de Vigan is the mother of a son and a daughter and lives with her two children in Paris. While she works during the day in a sociological research institute and meets her mother role, she writes late in the evening and at night their manuscripts.

Delphine de Vigan has published four novels, the first - Jours sans faim - but under the pseudonym Lou Delvig. For her third novel, published in 2006 Un soir de décembre she was awarded the Literature Prize Saint- Valentin. Her breakthrough as a writer she reached with her novel No et moi, in which she portrays the life of a young homeless from the perspective of a thirteen year old girl. The novel was awarded the Prix des Libraires 2008 and the Prix Rotary International in 2008.

Works

• Jours sans faim. Grasset, 2001, ISBN 2246611717 (published under the pseudonym Lou Delvig ).
• Les garçons jolis. JC Lattès, 2005, ISBN 978-2-709-62624-8.
• Un soir de décembre. JC Lattès, 2005, ISBN 978-2-709-62725-2.
• No & I. From the French by Doris Heinemann. Droemer, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-426-19831-5.
• Sous le manteau. 2008 ( collected works, éditions flame Iron)
• Les Heures souterraines. 2009 ( éditions Jean -Claude Lattès ) I had forgotten that I am vulnerable, Droemer / Knaue, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-426-19886-5.

• My mother's smile. From the French by Doris Heinemann. Droemer, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-426-19946-6.