What is Laurent Mauvignier?
{{Infobox person | name = Laurent Mauvignier | image = FIG 2014 - Laurent Mauvignier 01.jpg | imagesize = 200px | caption = Laurent at FIG 2014, Amerigo-Vespucci Prize 2014 | birth_name = | birth_place = [[France]] | nationality = France | known for = [[Des hommes (2020 movie)|Des hommes (2020)]] | occupation = Writer | awards = Wepler Prize in 2000, [[Inter Book Prize]] in 2001, [[Fnac novel prize]] in 2006, [[Virilo Prize]] in 2009, Fénéon Prize in 2010, Amerigo-Vespucci Prize in 2014 | notable_works = | family = [[Thierry Mauvignier]] | website = }} '''Laurent Mauvignier''' (b. 12 October 1967, [[Tours]], [[France]]) is a [[French people|French]] [[writer]]. He is the brother of [[Movie director|director]] [[Thierry Mauvignier]]. Mauvignier is a former [[resident]] of the Villa Medici. He is an officer of the [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]]. == Biography == Laurent Mauvignier comes from a working-class family of five children living in Descartes in [[Touraine]]. He is the brother of director [[Thierry Mauvignier]]. At the age of seventeen, he entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in [[Tours]]. He graduated from there in [[visual arts]] in 1991. Laurent Mauvignier [[Publishing|published]] his first [[novel]] ''Loin d'eux'' in 1999 at editions de Minuit, That has been his main publishing house for his entire career. The novel received the Fénéon Prize in 2000.<ref>[http://www.vma.fr/fiche.cfm/483149_laurent-mauvignier Laurent Mauvignier] on the VMA website, accessed March 2, 2017.</ref> His second novel , ''Learning to Finish,'' was published the next year, It was was awarded several prizes, They include the Wepler Prize in 2000, and the Inter Book Prize and Prix du second novel in 2001. In 2006, he won the Fnac novel prize for his work ''In the crowd.'' It is a novel about the Heysel drama which took place in [[Belgium]] in 1985. His novel ''Des hommes'', published in 2009, won several prizes. They include the 2009 Prix Virilo and the 2010 Prix d