Yann Moix

Yann Moix is a French author, filmmaker, and television personality born in 1968 in Nevers, France. He gained prominence with his debut novel Jubilations vers le ciel (1996), which won the Prix Goncourt for first novel and the Prix François-Mauriac, and later received the Prix Renaudot for Naissance (2013); he has authored fifteen novels, directed films like Podium (2004), and served as a columnist on On n'est pas couché. French