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Marie-Hélène Lafon (born 1962) is a French educator and award-winning writer.
She was born in Aurillac in the Cantal department and grew up on the family farm there. She was educated at a religious boarding school in Saint-Flour and, after moving to Paris in 1980, continued her studies at the Sorbonne. She took her agrégation de grammaire in 1987, going on to teach classical literature. Lafon only began writing when she was 34, publishing her first novel Le soir du chien in 2001.
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GenderFemale
Birthday1962-10-01 (62 years old)
CitizenshipsFrance
AwardsKnight of the National Order of Merit, Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle, Prix Renaudot, prix Arverne, Prix Renaudot des lycéens
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