14 Facts About Yann Moix

Yann Moix is the author of ten novels and the recipient of several literary prizes.

Yann Moix was born on 31 March 1968 in Nevers, France.

Yann Moix earned a bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne and graduated from the Ecole superieure de commerce de Reims.

Yann Moix won the Prix Goncourt du premier roman, as well as the Prix Francois Mauriac from the Academie Francaise, for Jubilations vers le ciel in 1996.

Between 2015 and 2018, Yann Moix was a panellist on On n'est pas couche, a television program.

In 2009, Yann Moix signed a petition in support of film director Roman Polanski, calling for his release after Polanski was arrested in Switzerland in relation to his 1977 charge for drugging and raping a 13-year-old girl.

In 2010, Yann Moix signed a petition against the Gayssot Act created by his friend and Holocaust denier Paul-Eric Blanrue, stating that Robert Faurisson and Serge Thion were "serious, intelligent, though delirious revisionists".

The book, despite being presented as a novel, is made to look heavily autobiographical, which leads the public to think that Yann Moix actually endured as a young boy what the protagonist goes through.

The book is laced with hate for the narrator's parents, with Yann Moix positioning himself between the lines as a real-life long-suffering victim who finally dares to tell the truth.

Yann Moix stated that his older brother should not be a flag-bearer for suffering children, since "he doesn't care about other people's suffering".

Right in the middle of this controversy, the French magazine L'Express revealed on 26 August 2019 that Yann Moix, who has always positioned himself as a staunch defender of the Jewish cause and of ill-treated minorities as a whole, contributed to a negationist, antisemitic self-styled magazine while he was a student.

At first, Yann Moix admitted having drawn the images it contained, but strongly denied having written any of the offensive text, saying that he had merely copied what his fellow editors had composed "since his handwriting was the best of the lot".

Yann Moix relented, admitting that he wrote the texts and saying that today they make him "want to puke"; he stated that he was never antisemitic, just filled with hate for himself, and that all his life as a grown man he had worked hard to run away from "these toxic geographies".

Yann Moix claimed that he felt "liberated" now that the story had come out.