If in this year 2024 we have spoken to him more about his private life than about his novels, Nicolas Mathieu nonetheless remains one of the most brilliant French writers of recent years. Last March, Paris Match announced a romance between the 45-year-old man and Charlotte Casiraghi, but for the moment, it is difficult to discern the truth from the false in this whole story. On December 9, the writer was photographed with the daughter of Caroline of Monaco, but no formalization has been made for the moment. In terms of professional life, everything is going well for the father of a young 11-year-old boy, named Oscar.
With his novel, Their children after them (Actes Sud, 2018), Nicolas Mathieu made a sensational entry into the literary world, winning the 2018 Goncourt Prize. A novel which has just been adapted for the cinema by Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma in a drama which we are notably finds Ludivine Sagnier and Gilles Lellouche. A work which obviously changed the life of the author who announced the disappearance of his mother on a very unusual date recently. “At 40, with the second book, it was a bit astonishing… My life changed overnight, it was put into orbit, and I’ve been shooting ever since. (…) The hardest thing is finding time and calm to write. We are caught up in a huge machine. everything changes, the way people look at you, your identity. I no longer had colleagues, you have to learn to manage that”he explains in an interview with Madame Figarothis Friday, January 3.
Nicolas Mathieu employee in an organization monitoring air quality
A radical change of life for Nicolas Mathieu, who spoke about his breakup with the mother of his son Oscar a few weeks ago. Before becoming a full-time writer, he had a job in a rather unusual field. “Oui, I had a job, like everyone elseand I had to stop. I worked in a organization that monitors air quality. The office spirit made me sweat then, now I miss it. It’s a place of observation, it organizes your week, it creates links with people, it’s a way to keep in touch with real life”, he says before concluding on the subject: “I’m safe from all the troubles I had, even if I have new ones. People look at you, privileges can take me away from real life… But then what am I talking about if I can no longer observe people’s lives?”
