![]() In 2011, he was admitted to two of the most prestigious institutions of higher learning in France, the École Normale Supérieure and to the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He is the first in his family to attend university. ![]() The poverty, racism, alcoholism and his homosexuality which he dealt with in his family during his childhood would become the subject of his literary work. ![]() His mother found occasional work bathing the elderly. Louis grew up in a poor family supported by government welfare: his father was a factory worker for a decade until "One day at work, a storage container fell on him and crushed his back, leaving him bedridden, on morphine for the pain" and unable to work. Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule was born and raised in the town of Hallencourt in northern France, which is the setting of his first novel, the autobiographical En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (2014 published in English in 2018 as The End of Eddy). Édouard Louis (born Eddy Bellegueule 30 October 1992) is a French writer. École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS) Hallencourt, Picardy, France (present-day Hallencourt, Hauts-de-France, France) ![]()
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