Born in 1965, Manuel Carcassonne is a man of books: literary critic, editor, director of the collective work Gombrowicz, vingt ans après and preface to Gombrowicz's Contre les poètes, he spent most of his career at Grasset, where he was literary director, then deputy general manager, before taking over at Stock in 2013. Manuel Carcassonne won the Prix Renaudot du livre de poche 2023 for his first book, Le Retournement.

Language spoken: French

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