About the Author
Pierre Guyotat was born in 1940 in a remote mountainous region of south-western France. He spent much of the 1960s in North Africa, as a soldier in the colonial war between France and Algeria, and then travelling in a camper van. His most celebrated novel, 'Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers', written in his mid-twenties was an immediate best-seller in France where it has often been called the greatest modern French novel. This title was banned on publication in 1970. He spent 9 years writing his most recent book 'Progenitors'