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Ariel Kenig
Ariel Kenig (born June 24, 1983) is a French writer. He was born to a French mother and a Polish father, grew up in a Parisian suburb, and discovered literature when he was 17.
Biography.
Kenig left school in 2003 to write. He met Audrey Diwan, a French writer and series editor at Denoël, which published his first novel, "Camping Atlantic", in June 2005. The novel deals with teenage violence and boredom, and with the strength of brotherhood
style, Ariel Kenig offers a premium novel, which is at the same time sensitive, distressing and subtly orchestrated." ("Glamour")
- "La Pause" (September 2006, éditions Denoël–145 pages–).
- "Ariel Kenig knows how to depict the fear of unemployment in the working class, the temptation of the nihilism among those abandoned by the society. He also says that the novels are never sad or merry. They either are written or aren't." ("Le Monde"