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Biography
Sylvain Tesson is a French writer and traveller born in Paris. He has engaged in a number of unusual travels and expeditions which are the basis for his books. Among his most successful works are The Consolations of the Forest (2011), about a project to live alone in a Siberian cabin for six months and The Art of Patience (2019), about the quest for snow leopards in Tibet. For the latter book, he received the Prix Renaudot.
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Awards & recognition
- Prix Renaudot · 2019
- Knight of the National Order of Merit · 2017
- Prix de la Page 112 · 2015
- Prix littéraire de l'armée de terre - Erwan Bergot · 2015
- Prix Médicis essai · 2011
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- Prix de la nouvelle · 2009
- Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle · 2009
- Aurita
