Laurent Mauvignier


Laurent Mauvignier is a French writer. He won the 2025 Prix Goncourt for La Maison vide. He is the brother of director Thierry Mauvignier.

Biography

After studying visual arts at the École supérieure des beaux-arts de Tours, Laurent Mauvignier decided to become a writer in the 1990s following the advice of Tanguy Viel, a friend and novelist. To date, all of his works have been published by éditions de Minuit, where, along with Jean Echenoz, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Marie NDiaye and Éric Chevillard, Laurent Mauvignier is associated with the so-called « Style Minuit ».

Works

Novels

Translated works:

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Tout mon amour, éditions de Minuit, 2012,.

Participation

Literary prizes