François-Henri Désérable was born in 1987 in Amiens. He studied Languages and Law at the Picardie Jules-Verne and Jean-Moulin Lyon-III universities. In 2012 he won the Best Young French-language Writer Award for Clic! Clac! Boum!, a story about the death of Danton. In 2013 he was put on Gallimard’s prestigious Blanche list for Tu montreras ma tête au peuple (2014), a novel that won the Académie Française’s Amic Prize. With Évariste (2015) he won, among others, the Histoire de Paris and Geneviève Moll Biography awards. Un certain M. Piekielny, based on the life of the writer Romain Gary, was a much anticipated release in France in 2017. He currently lives in Paris.