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Claude Lucas
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Claude Lucas

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Claude Lucas was born in 1943 and spent part of his childhood in Saint-Malo. His adolescence was troubled – but steeped in literature - making him an early specialist of imprisonment, as attested by Suerte, his first work written in a Spanish prison (Ed. Plon, coll. Terre Humaine; France Culture Prize, 1996).

He has also written Chemin des Fleurs (short stories, Flammarion 1998), d’Amor mío (Jacqueline Chambon/Actes Sud), de Ti kreiz (novel, P.O.L., 2010), as well as L’Hypothèse de M. Baltimore (theater, Aléas Editeur, 1992).

His radio plays are aired regularly on France Culture, including: Soliloque à Loctudy, Job Art, Tendre Terreur, La Maison d’en face, Exécution, Chambre noire, Geôle, À gauche de l’horloge. SACD Radio Prize, 2012.

He lives(and writes) on the island of Ouessant.