Born in 1972, Laurent Gaude is one of France's most highly respected playwrights and novelists. He has won many prizes including the Goncourt in 2004 for The Scortas' Sun, published in 34 countries. In a survey by leading French trade magazine Livres Hebdo, Hell's Gate (to be published by Gallic in 2017) was chosen by booksellers as the highlight of 676 books published in the 2008 rentree season.
