Joël Egloff

Joël Egloff (born 1970, Créhange in Moselle) is a contemporary French writer and screenriter.

After his baccalaureate, Joel Egloff studied history in Strasbourg and then enrolled in a school of cinema, the ESEC (École supérieure libre d’études cinématographiques) in Paris. He wrote scenarios and worked as assistant director. He is now devoted to writing. He is the author of five novels, including L'Étourdissement which got the Prix du Livre Inter 2005.

L’Homme que l’on prenait pour un autre (Buchet/Chastel (), 2008) combines strange poetry and black humor. It is the story of an individual with such an ordinary face and a face so common that he is "daily taken for someone else".

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