Edouard Levé

Edouard Levé was a French writer, artist, and photographer best known for his introspective and fragmentary style. He studied business at the elite École supérieure des sciences économiques et commerciales and was a self-taught painter and photographer. His first book, Oeuvres, is an imaginary list of more than 500 books by the author, although none were actually written at the time. Autoportrait, consisting of disconnected, unparagraphed sentences of the narrator’s thoughts,was shortlisted for the 2013 Best Translated Book Award. Levé’s final work, Suicide, was delivered to the publisher just days before he took his own life in 2007.