He was born in Mont-Saint-Martin in Lorraine.
After serving in the navy for three years, he settled in the southern city of Grenoble.
He won the Prix Medici in 2003 for his novel Quatre Soldats (Four Soldiers).
The English translation of his novel Un repas en hiver (A Meal in Winter) by Sam Taylor was nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
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