“The President’s Hat”, published on the eve of the 2012 French presidential elections, was awarded the Prix Landerneau Decouvertes and the Prix Relay des Voyageurs, and the English translation was an ABA Indies Introduce and a Waterstones Book Club pick. It was a time without internet or Facebook, and without mobile phones. He has quite a few memories from that time. He also set “The President’s Hat” during the 80s because that’s the time that he’d like to go back to, since it’s his childhood. He also likes it because the book belongs to a certain period of his life. Antoine actually wrote it in the store of the antique dealer he was working for at the time. Because it is the first of his novels to have been published, and was a bit of an adventure to move from a text in his computer to a novel in a bookshop. “The Portrait” is also the one he has special affection for. This experience provided the inspiration for “The Portrait”, his first novel, which won the Prix Drouot. His passion for art led him to take on a job assisting an antiques dealer in Paris. A truly born and bred Parisian, after he studied film, he started his career directing short films and writing screenplays. Antoine Laurain is a screenwriter, novelist, director, journalist, and a collector of antique keys.
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