Love Alone
The novel "Love Alone" is immediately noticed, appreciated and awarded "Charles Aumont" of the French Foundation (2005), and in 2012 it has received the European Union Prize for Literature (2012). Laurence Plazenet is the author of "The Wound and the Thirst" (2009) and "The Disproportion of the Man" (2010).
This project has been funded with support from the Creative Europe Programme of the European Commission.
Laurence Plazenet
Laurence Plazenet was born in Paris in 1968. At five-years-old, she was already a passionate reader, quickly developing her desire to write. A former student at the prestigious Ecole Normale Supérieure, she is a Classic Literature ‘agrégée’ and holds a Literature PhD. She started her career as a Sorbonne professor, and studied at Princeton in 1994. However, for a long time she was convinced that she didn’t have anything to say that was worth being printed. She then worked for ten years on academic papers, feeling she was, at least, useful to literature. She broke the silence in 2005 with L’amour seul, published by Albin Michel, then with La Blessure et la soif in 2009 and Disproportion de l’homme, both published by Gallimard.
A lecturer of French Literature at Paris-Sorbonne, a member of the French National Centre for Scientific Research and the Institut Universitaire de France, and a vice-chair of the Societé des Amis de Port-Royal, Plazenet is also currently writing her fourth novel.
