Hugo Boris
Hugo Boris (born 18 November 1979 in Paris), is a French writer. Biography Born in 1979, Boris is graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Bordeaux and the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière. In 2003, his short story N'oublie pas de montrer ma tête au peuple, published by Mercure de France, earned him the prix du jeune écrivain. His first novel, Le Baiser dans la nuque (The kiss in the neck), was published by Éditions Belfond in 2005. The book, which describes the meeting of a piano teacher with a deaf midwife, was rewarded by the Festival of the first novel of Chambéry and by the Prix Emmanuel Roblès. The book met a critical and public success which made it one of the events of the literary season. Télérama evoked a novel "light as a song, dark as a requiem", of a writing which "always leaves the emotion pass, the poetry, without sentimentality", a text which goes "against the publications of the literary season that trumpet and storm" Elle wrote of a text "with a sustained, almost musical rhythm, nourished by a lively and often poignant writing of humanity". In 2007, appeared La Délégation norvégienne (The Norwegian Delegation), which developed a