édouard louis & douglas stuart 

On class change, the power of literature and the awareness of privilege
These two leading authors seem to have a lot in common. In writing about their mothers, both evoked a childhood, an environment they had to get out of before being able to cast a lucid but not unloving gaze on it. An exceptional meeting hosted by Annelies Beck.
This autumn, Shuggie Bain, the breathtaking first novel by Douglas Stuart, winner of the 2020 Booker Prize, will be published in French translation by Globe. At the same time, Édouard Louis’s latest novel, Combats et métamorphoses d’une femme, will be published in Dutch translation (Strijd en metamorfose van een vrouw, De Bezige Bij). The parallels between these two books were an occasion to bring the authors together for an in-depth interview.