François Vallejo (1960, Le Mans) is a French professor of literature and a writer.
Passionate about Claudel, then by Louis-Ferdinand Céline, François Vallejo studied letters. He became a professor of classical literature at Le Havre and began writing novels at the end of the 1990s.
In 2001, his novel Madame Angeloso was part of the second selection of the Prix Goncourt and was also selected for the Femina and the Renaudot.
Work All his books are published by : 1998: Vacarme dans la salle de bal 2000: Pirouettes dans les ténèbres 2001: Madame Angeloso – prix "roman" de France-Télévisions 2001 2003: Groom – prix des libraires and 2004 2005: Le Voyage des grands hommes 2006: – prix du Livre Inter 2007 2007: Dérive 2008: L’Incendie du Chiado 2010: Les Sœurs Brelan 2012: Métamorphoses 2014: Fleur et Sang 2016: Un dangereux plaisir
External links Official website of publisher Viviane Hamy Introduction to L'incendie du Chiado and Introduction to 'Ouest' on magazine Culture a confine Tant qu’il y aura des gens pour recevoir, alors j’aurai envie de donner on Le Figaro François Vallejo: Itinéraire d'un djihadiste raté on Biliobs