Gilles Leroy

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Gilles Leroy
Born	(1958-12-28) 28 December 1958 (age 65) Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Occupation	Novelist
Website
www.gillesleroy.net

Gilles Leroy (born 28 December 1958 in Bagneux, Hauts-de-Seine) is a French writer.^[1] He studied at the Lycée Lakanal in Sceaux, which appears in his 1996 novel Les Maîtres du monde as the "Lycée Ducasse". His novel Alabama song won the Prix Goncourt in 2007.^[2]