Benjamin Berton graduated from the
Institut d’études politiques de Paris and received a
D.E.A. in social and cultural history.
Sauvageons, a chronicle of the lives of northern teenagers who lack direction, won the
prix Goncourt du premier roman and the
Prix littéraire de la vocation in 2000. He lives in
Le Mans, where his novel
La Chambre à remonter le temps is set. In 2020, Berton published the first biography of the English group the
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