Édouard Louis

Édouard Louis is a French writer, whose two novels translated into English are The End of Eddy (2017) and History of Violence (2018). His third, Who Killed My Father, is published in April. (2019)

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‘The Pain Never Went Away’

The problems had started in the factory where you worked. I described it in my first novel, The End of Eddy: one afternoon we got a call from the factory informing us that something heavy had fallen on you. Your back was mangled, crushed. They told us it would be years before you could even walk.

February 4, 2019

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