Lionel Duroy

Lionel Duroy de Suduiraut (born 1 October 1949) is a French writer and journalist born in Bizerte (Tunisia)[1] into an impoverished family of aristocratic origin who long shared extreme right-wing ideas.

His youth in this environment left a profound mark on him and was the breeding ground for many of his books.

(Priez pour nous [fr], Le Chagrin).

Lionel Duroy was first a delivery man, a courier, a worker, then a journalist at Libération and at L'événement du jeudi [fr].

[1][2] In 2013, his novel L'Hiver des hommes made him the winner of the prix Renaudot des lycéens 2012 and the Prix Joseph-Kessel 2013.