Frédéric Beigbeder

Frédéric Beigbeder (born September 21 1965) is a French writer, commentator critic and pundit.

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September 21 - 1965 - French

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He was born into a privileged family in Neuilly-on-Seine. His mother, Christine de Chasteigner is a translator of mawkish novels (Barbara Cartland et al), his father, Jean-Michel Beigbeder, is a headhunter. He studied at the Lycée Montaigne and Louis-le-Grand, and later at Sciences-Po, from which he graduated at the age of 24 and began his work as a modern renaissance man: advertising executive, author, broadcaster, publisher and dilettante.

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Neuilly-on-Seine - Louis-le-Grand - Sciences-Po - Renaissance man

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In 1994, he founded the "Prix de Flore" (which takes its name from the famous café in Saint-Germain-des-Prés destroyed in a bomb-blast in Bret Easton Ellis' Glamorama). The prize is awarded annually to a promising young French author. Vincent Ravalec, Jacques A. Bertrand, Michel Houellebecq are among those who have won the prize.

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Prix de Flore - Saint-Germain-des-Prés - Bret Easton Ellis - Glamorama - Michel Houellebecq

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He works as a publisher at Flammarion. He is divorced and has a daughter, Chloé.

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His has written several, broadly autobiographical novels.

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