title: Gauz
text: # Gauz
  
  Gauz is the author name of Patrick Armand-Gbaka Brede. He was born in 1971 in Abidjan, Ivory Coast.
  
  ## Biography
  
  Gauz is a photographer, writer, editor of a satirical Ivorian economic newspaper, and the author of the novel Debout-Payé, published in 2014, Paris, by "Le Nouvel Attila". The book is the first recipient of a new award: "le prix des libraires" Gibert Joseph.
  
  ## Works
  
  * Debout-Payé, Paris, Le Nouvel Attila, 2014. 173 p. Translated by Frank Wynne as “Standing Heavy” (MacLehose Press, 2022). Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize
  * Screenwriter of the movie "Après l'Océan", Le Nouvel Attila
  * Camarade Papa, Paris, Le Nouvel Attila, 2020, 264 p.
  * Black Manoo, Paris, Le Nouvel Attila, 2020.
  
  ## Awards
  
  * 2014 Prix des libraires Gibert Joseph for Debout-Payé
  * Best first French novel of 2014 by the annual ranking Meilleurs livres de l'année du magazine Lire for Debout-Payé
  