Marie-Hélène Lafon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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French writer and school teacher
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Place of Birth: Aurillac, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
About Marie-Hélène Lafon
- Marie-Hélène Lafon (born 1962) is a French educator and award-winning writer. She was born in Aurillac in the Cantal department and grew up on the family farm there.
- She was educated at a religious boarding school in Saint-Flour and, after moving to Paris in 1980, continued her studies at the Sorbonne.
- She took her agrégation de grammaire in 1987, going on to teach classical literature.
- Lafon only began writing when she was 34, publishing her first novel Le soir du chien in 2001.
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