Antoine Laurain

His first novel, The Portrait [Ailleurs si j'y suis] won the Drouot Prize in 2007, and was followed by Smoking Kills [Fume et tue] (2008) and Carrefour des Nostalgies (2009).

Antoine Laurain participated in a US tour for The President’s Hat at the invitation of American independent bookshops.

In 2015 The President’s Hat was adapted for television (France 2) with Frédéric Diefenthal, Michel Leeb, Frédérique Bell and Roland Giraud (directed by Robin Davis, music by Vladimir Cosma).

The Red Notebook [La femme au carnet rouge] was published in 2014 and was translated into 22 languages, including under the German title of Liebe mit zwei Unbekannten (Hoffmann und Campe) and the Italian title of La donna dal taccuino rosso (Einaudi).

On the 11th of April 2020, Camilla Parker Bowles, the Queen of England and wife of Charles III, published[1] a list of nine books she recommended for reading during the COVID-19 lockdown on the Clarence House Instagram account, the account previously used to provide updates on King Charles and Queen Camilla's activities.