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Frederic BeigbederWriter, commentator critic and pundit, Frederic Beigbeder was born in September 21 1965, in to a privileged family in Neuilly-on-Seine. His mother, Christine de Chasteigner is a translator of mawkish novels (Barbara Cartland et al), his father, Jean-Michel Beigbeder, is a headhunter. He studied at the Lyce Montaigne and Louis le Grand, and later at Sciences-Po, from which he graduated in 1984 and , at the age of 25 began his work as a modern renaissance man: advertising executive, author, broadcaster, publisher and dilettante. In 1994, he founded the "Prix de Flor" (which takes its name from the famous caf in Saint-Germain-des-Prs destroyed in a bomb-blast in Bret Easton Ellis' Glamorama) The prize is awarded annually to a promising young French author Vincent Ravalec, Jacques A. Bertrand, Michel Houellebecq are among those who have won the prize. He works as a publisher at Flammarion. He is divorced and has a 4 year old daughter, Chlo. His has written several, broadly autobiographical novels including 99 francs (translated into English as 9.99) L'Amour dure trois ans Mmoires d'un jeune homme drang Nouvelles sous ecstasy L'goste romantique Windows on the World (translated under the same title by Frank Wynne)
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