Philippe Besson is an author, screenwriter, and playwright. His first novel, In the Absence of Men, was awarded the Emmanuel Roblès Prize in 2001, and he is also the author of, among other books, Late Autumn (Grand Prize RTL-Lire), A Boy from Italy, and The Atlantic House. In 2017 he published Lie With Me, which has sold more than 120,000 copies, was a no.1 bestseller and was awarded the Maison de la Presse Prize. His novels have been translated into twenty languages.
