Le Lambeau

Prix Femina · 2018 · Winner

GallimardMarch 15, 2018Biography & Memoir

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Prix Femina	2018	Winner

About This Book

A survivor of the 2015 Charlie Hebdo attack recounts the shooting and the many months of reconstructive surgery and slow re-emergence into life, considered one of the most important literary responses to the attack.

About the Author

Philippe LançonFR

Philippe Lançon is a French journalist and novelist born in 1963 in Vannes, Brittany. He is a cultural journalist who wrote for Charlie Hebdo and Libération. On January 7, 2015, he was one of the survivors of the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo's editorial offices in Paris that killed twelve people. Read more →