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Frédéric Beigbeder

フレデリック・ベイグベデール

Furēderikku Beigubedēru

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1965-09-21 (Neuilly-sur-Seine)
Nationality
France
Languages
French
Residence History
Neuilly-sur-Seine → Paris

Career

Occupations
writer, literary critic, television presenter, copywriter, editor, executive director of adult magazine
Active Years
1990-2025
Affiliations
Young & Rubicam, Flammarion, Lui

Education

Lycée Montaigne
high school
Country: France
Lycée Louis-le-Grand
high school
Country: France
Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris
political studies
Country: France
CELSA Paris-Sorbonne
communication
Year of Graduation: 1989
Country: France
卒業時24歳

Awards

Prix Interallié
2003
Work: Windows on the World
Result: winner
Prix Renaudot
2009
Work: A French Novel
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Windows on the World

2003 novel

A novel set at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.

terrorismcapitalismhumanity
Adaptations
  • [film] / Max Pugh

99 Francs

2000 novel

Satirical novel criticizing the advertising world.

consumerismadvertisingcapitalism
Adaptations
  • [film] 99 Francs (2007)

A French Novel

2009 novel

Semi-autobiographical novel inspired by a drug arrest.

drugsself-mockerymodern society

Bibliography

  • Mémoires d'un jeune homme dérangé (1990)
  • Holiday in a Coma (1994)
  • Love Lasts Three Years (1997)
  • Nouvelles sous ecstasy (1999)
  • 99 Francs (2000)
  • Dernier inventaire avant liquidation (2001)
  • Windows on the World (2003)
  • L'Égoïste romantique (2005)
  • Au secours pardon (2007)
  • A French Novel (2009)
  • Premier bilan après l'apocalypse (2011)
  • Manhattan's Babe (2014)
  • A Life Without End (2018)
  • L'Homme qui pleure de rire (2020)
  • Un barrage contre l'Atlantique (2022)
  • Confessions d'un hétérosexuel légèrement dépassé (2023)
  • Dictionnaire amoureux des écrivains français d'aujourd'hui (2023)
  • Un homme seul (2025)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
humour and self-mockeryhigh-low cultural references
Recurring Motifs
satire of modern societydrugs and pleasurecritique of capitalism

Health

  • cocaine possession
    2008
    Arrested, inspired a book.

Legacy

Known as a French contemporary writer famous for satirical novels. Creator of Prix de Flore.

In Popular Culture

  • Novels adapted into films

Trivia

  • Creator of the Flore and Sade Awards
  • Executive director of Lui magazine
  • Arrested for cocaine possession in 2008
  • Detained on rape allegations in 2023, which he denies