Yann Queffélec.

Son of the Brest-born writer Henri Queffélec, Yann Queffélec was born on September 4, 1949. His first book, a biography of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók, was published in 1981. Following his highly acclaimed debut novel about the Algerian War, « Le Charme noir, » published in 1983, Yann Queffélec received the Goncourt Prize in 1985 for « Les Noces barbares, » a novel translated worldwide. He has since published forty works, including a biography of Eric Tabarly, and twenty-five novels. He is also the author of « Dictionnaire amoureux de la Bretagne » (Plon-Fayard, 2013) and « L’Homme de ma vie » (Guérin editions, 2015, Hussards Prize).

As a literary columnist for Le Nouvel Observateur, Yann Queffélec is also a member of the Writers of the Sea corps, founded in 2003 by Jean-François Deniau. Through his novels and narratives, Yann Queffélec scrutinizes the miseries and grandeur of the human comedy.