Sébastien Ménestrier

• Sébastien Ménestrier still lives in Besançon, where he was born, in 1979. He is a school teacher and a singer-songwriter, who has also published two earlier books, Heddad (non-fiction, La Chambre d'écho, 2008) and Pendant les combats (During the Fighting, novel, Gallimard, 2013), which was short-listed for the First Novel Goncourt.