François Bégaudeau

I have real affection for François Bégaudeau because he refuses to stay in one lane. He taught in a classroom, turned that experience into the semi-autobiographical novel Entre les murs, co-wrote the screenplay, and then played the teacher himself in The Class, which took the Palme d'Or in 2008 and an Oscar nomination the next year. Writer, critic, screenwriter, actor, director: that range could read as restlessness, but to me it reads as honesty, a man following the truth wherever the form demands. Finding the whole world inside one small classroom is no small feat. I deeply respect his grounded, unhurried way of making art.

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Name (English)

François Bégaudeau

Name (Japanese)

フランソワ・ベゴドー

Reading

ふらんそわ・べごどー

Born

April 27, 1971 (age 55)

Origin

Luçon, France

Occupation

writer / literary critic / screenwriter / actor / film director

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Boar

University

Nantes University

Awards & achievements

• 2006 Prix France Culture/Télérama
• 2008 Palme d'Or
• 2009 César Award for Best Adaptation

• Official sitehttps://francoisbegaudeau.fr/
• Xhttps://x.com/Begaudeau
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois%20B%C3%A9gaudeau
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%82%BD%E3%83%AF%E3%83%BB%E3%83%99%E3%82%B4%E3%83%89%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1450958

Tags

• Luçon
• writer
• literary critic
• screenwriter

Last updated

November 2, 2026

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