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Jean-Paul Didierlaurent

Jean-Paul Didierlaurent

Jean-Paul Didierlaurent lives in the Vosges region of France. His short stories have twice won the International Hemingway Award. The Reader on the 6:27 is his first novel. " " " "Ros Schwartz has translated over 60 works of fiction and non-fiction from French including a new translation of Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince. In 2009 she was made a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her services to French literature.

Books by Jean-Paul Didierlaurent

The Rest of Their Lives
The Rest of Their Lives

Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
The Reader on the 6.27
The Reader on the 6.27

Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
02 / 11 / 16

Book club questions:
The Reader on the 6.27

We've chosen some brilliant new books perfect for book clubs and created questions to help get your discussion going.  

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01 / 09 / 14

Five questions with Jean-Paul Didierlaurent, author of The Reader on the 6.27

"In this novel, I wanted to highlight the invisible, the battered lives, the ordinary people who often go unnoticed; and I wanted to show that each of them could have their own unexpected story. "

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14 / 06 / 13

Listen to a clip from The Reader on the 6.27, read by Stephane Cornicard

Guylain Vignolles lives on the edge of existence. Working at a book pulping factory in a job he hates, he has but one pleasure in life . . .

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