Frédéric Beigbeder

b. 1965

Frédéric Beigbeder (b. 1965) - a French writer, a former advertising man and society critic. His ironic, cynical and confessional prose is about glamour, love and the emptiness of the consumer world, and he became famous with the novel 99 Francs. He writes about his own time from the inside, laughing and wincing at once.