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The French writer Frédéric Beigbeder has won this year's Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for his controversial novel-cum-essay about the attacks of 11 September 2001.
He was born in 1965 in the plush Parisian suburb of Neuilly-sur-Seine, the son of a corporate headhunter father and a mother who translated romance novels (including Barbara Cartland's). He enjoyed a conventional French elite education at the Louis le Grand lycée and the Sciences-Po faculty in Paris.
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