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. This, his most celebrated novel, was written in his mid-twenties and became an immediate best-seller in France where it has often been called the greatest modern French novel. His next novel 'Eden Eden Eden' (1970) caused a huge scandal and was censored. He spent 9 years writing his most recent book 'Progenitors'