Awarded the Prix Renaudot for non-fiction with Checkmate in Paradise (Actes Sud), Sébastien Lapaque is a complete writer, balancing sensitivity and skill.
Born in 1971 in Tübingen, Germany, Sébastien Lapaque has published more than twenty books of various inspirations and forms. Novels (This world is so beautiful, Actes Sud, Prix Jean Freustié 2021), stories (Court voyage équinoxial, Sabine Wespieser, 2005), essays (Chez Marcel LapierreStock, 2004), collections of short stories (French Mythology, Actes Sud, Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle 2002), columns (At random and oftenActes Sud, 2009), city portraits (Theory of Rio de JaneiroActes Sud, 2014) have enabled the writer to showcase the full range of his passions and curiosities: literature, ideas, distant horizons, gastronomy and (natural) wine…
The grandiosity of the mix might be disconcerting were it not for the coherence dictated by a sensibility in which the lucidity of the view of the times we live in never sacrifices the spirit of childhood and the faculty of wonder.
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