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HUGO HORIOT is a young French actor, director, and writer. In 2005, he was admitted in the Theatre du Jour, a French theater academy, where he studied the art of acting with Pierre Debauche. The Emperor, C'est Moi, the narrative of his autism and coming out of it, is his first book. It won him the Prix ""Paroles de patients,"" a French award that recognizes writers writing about disease and healing from it. In 1991, his mother, Fran oise Lef vre, published a book titled Le petit prince cannibale, about his autistic childhood and the way she helped him to grow up. It won her the Prix ""Goncourt des lyceens"". ""I am not cured of Autism,"" said Horiot, ""I have learned to live with it. He lives in Paris. This text was adapted for the stage, with Horiot playing his own character. Translator LINDA COVERDALE has a Ph.D. in French Studies from the Johns Hopkins University and has translated more than seventy books. A Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, she has won the 2004 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the 2006 Scott Moncrieff Prize, and the 1997 and 2008 French-American Foundation Translation Prize. She lives in Brooklyn.
Haunting, original, dazzling in its mixture of fancy and specificity, a welcome addition to memory and understanding... --Tim Page, author of Parallel Play It's a beautiful book, moving, fascinating, that grants us entry to a strange and sometimes frightening world... --Brigitte Axelrad, Science et pseudo-sciences Truth glares from the pages, which we read with heart overflowing, sharing the experience of the boy trapped inside himself. -- La Libre Belgique .. ..a very beautiful text about difference. -- Le Roman du Mois The journey of a child who managed to escape from the prison of his dreams, and turn it into a work of art. -- Le Figaro An exceptional testimony. -- Le Soir
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