Histoire du fils

Marie-Hélène Lafon is a French novelist and professor of classical literature born in 1962 in Aurillac, in the Cantal region of central France. She grew up on a farm in the Auvergne and has taught Latin and Greek at a lycée in Paris, a dual identity — rural origins, urban intellectual life — that is at the core of her fiction. Lafon is the author of more than a dozen novels and short story collections, beginning with Le Soir du chien (2001). Read more →