Overview
Internationally Bestselling French Author
In partnership with Butler’s Department of Sociology
“One of the most important, politically vital and morally bracing writers of his generation” (The Guardian), Édouard Louis is the author of seven novels, The End of Eddy (2014), History of Violence (2016), Who Killed My Father (2018), Change (2021), A Woman’s Battles and Transformations (2022), Monique Escapes (2024), Que faire de la littérature? Méditations et Manifeste (2025), and Collapse (to be published in June 2026). He is also the editor of a collective volume devoted to the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu.
A close collaborator of renowned stage directors Stanislas Nordey (TNS), Thomas Ostermeier (Schaubühne Berlin), and Milo Rau (NTGent), he is the co-author of two plays, Au cœur de la violence and The Interrogation. His work has appeared in the New York Times, The Guardian, Freeman’s, etc. His books are translated into more than 30 languages, as well adapted for film and the theatre. In 2025, Éditions Points Seuil has published an eight-volume coffret featuring his complete works, along with a new collection of interviews.
Édouard Louis lives and works in Paris, France.
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