Éric Vuillard

Éric Vuillard is a French writer and film director born in Lyon in 1968. He won the Prix Goncourt in 2017 for L'Ordre du jour, and his earlier book Conquistadors took the Prix de l'inaperçu in 2010. Sorrow of the Earth looks at Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, and The War of the Poor is a history. Vuillard has also directed two films, L'homme qui marche and Mateo Falcone.