Xavier Le Clerc

Xavier Le Clerc was born in 1979 in Kabylia, Algeria, and grew up in Normandy near Caen. He studied sociology and literature. Under his birth name, Hamid Aït-Taleb, he published several short stories and his first novel. His second novel, “Cent vingt francs,” was published under the name Xavier Le Clerc and recalls his great-grandfather.