Writer - Edouard Louis
Does anger fuel Edouard Louis to write his compelling books? HARDtalk's Stephen Sackur speaks to the writer who has been seen as a leading voice of the gilets jaunes generation.
Every so often a writer emerges with a voice so original, distinctive and strong that it is heard far beyond the confines of the book buying public. HARDtalk鈥檚 Stephen Sackur speaks to Edouard Louis, who produced a raw, harrowing account of his own upbringing in a working class town in the north of France five years ago. Since then, he has written two more books drawn from his own experience of class, discrimination and violence in a fractured France. It鈥檚 tempting to see him as the voice of the gilets jaunes generation 鈥� is anger the fuel that propels him?
Image: Edouard Louis (Credit: Bertrand Rindoff Petroff/Getty Images)
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