Hugo Boris

Born in 1979, Boris is graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux and the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière.

The book, which describes the meeting of a piano teacher with a deaf midwife, was rewarded by the Festival of the first novel of Chambéry and by the Prix Emmanuel Roblès.

Télérama evoked a novel "light as a song, dark as a requiem", of a writing which "always leaves the emotion pass, the poetry, without sentimentality", a text which goes "against the publications of the literary season that trumpet and storm"[1] Elle wrote of a text "with a sustained, almost musical rhythm, nourished by a lively and often poignant writing of humanity".

[4] Je n’ai pas dansé depuis longtemps (I haven't danced for a long time), published in 2010, recounts the initiatory journey of a Soviet cosmonaut in weightlessness for more than four hundred days.

[9] Published in 2013, his novel Trois grands fauves braids an imaginary umbilical cord between Georges Danton, Victor Hugo and Winston Churchill.