Thomas Flahaut
France/Switzerland
Thomas Flahaut was born in 1991 in Montbéliard, France. He is a co-founder of the French-Swiss collective “Hétérotrophes” and writes novels and screenplays. He studied theater in Strasbourg before moving to Switzerland, where he studied creative writing at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel and now lives.
In 2018, Thomas Flahaut published his debut novel Ostwald (Eastwood), a dystopian novel about two brothers in Alsatia who must create a new future for themselves after a nuclear disaster. It portrays a devastated, post-apocalyptic France as well as the collapse of social ties and a certain working culture. He most recent novel Sommernächte (Summer Nights) also addresses the exploitation of a region. It centers on a group of young people in the French and Swiss Jura—Thomas, Mehdi, and Louise are in their twenties and have known each other since childhood. Back then, Les Verrières was an inexhaustible playground. Now they are adults, their district is rundown, and for the duration of one summer, the factory is at the center of their lives. Whereas their fathers toiled in the factory, their children began to dream early on of a better life. They find themselves in a sterile world that is even more violent than the world of their parents. Thomas Flahaut depicts a milieu in his novel that he knows from direct observation and offers a fresco on the power and fragility of social inheritance.
Sommernächte. Roman. Aus dem Französischen von Yves Raeber. Die Brotsuppe 2022
Ostwald. Roman. Éditions de l’Olivier 2017 (keine deutsche Übersetzung lieferbar)
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