Rouaud, Jean

Jean Rouaud, who won France’s most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, with his first novel Fields of Glory at the age of 38 - not for 40 years had it gone to a hitherto unpublished author - has earned his living as a nightwatchman, a stagehand, a philosophy teacher and a newsvendor. He has since published two acclaimed novels by way of sequel, Of Illustrious Men and The World More or Less.