Stéphane Hoffmann (6 March 1958, Saint-Nazaire) is a French writer.
Biography
Stéphane Hoffmann was sent to the Jesuits at Saint-François-Xavier in Vannes for ten years, then to the Frères de Ploërmel at the Lycée Saint-Louis in Saint-Nazaire.
After he studied in hypokhâgne at lycée Janson-de-Sailly in Paris, and although admitted in khâgne, he preferred to continue history and law studies in 1977 at the Paris-Sorbonne University and the Panthéon-Assas University. He finished them with a bachelor's degree in history (1980) and a master's degree in private law, obtained in 1983 in Nantes, where he lived from 1980 to 1992.
The publication of his first novel in 1989 opened him the doors of Le Figaro Magazine, where he published his first article on the history of the sandwich in 1990. He wrote a few hundred more on books, actresses, cigars and the best way to polish one's shoes.
Since March 2013, he holds a television critic's column: "La vision télé de Stéphane Hoffmann".
At La Baule-Escoublac, he has organized and animated since 2003 "Les Rendez-Vous de La Baule", where he invites every year twenty authors to meet their readers. And, since 2011, "Les Rendez-Vous des écrivains", the first weekend of December.
Works
1989: Le gouverneur distrait, novel – Albin Michel
1990: Château Bougon, novel – Albin Michel, 1990 – Prix Roger Nimier 1991
2001: La Gloire des cachalots, pamphlet contre les notables – Éditions du Rocher
2002: Le Gros Nul, selfportrait – Éditions du Rocher
2007: Des filles qui dansent, novel – Albin Michel – Prix Bretagne 2008
2008: Des garçons qui tremblent, novel – Albin Michel - Prix Ève Delacroix (Académie française) and Grand Prix d'honneur of la ville de La Baule (Société littéraire et artistique de La Baule)
