Serge Doubrovsky is a French writer and 1989 Prix Médicis

Prix Médicis

The Prix Médicis is a French literary award given each year in November. It was founded in 1958 by Gala Barbisan and Jean-Pierre Giraudoux. It is awarded to an author whose "fame does not yet match his talent."...

 winner for Le Livre brisé. He is also a critical theorist.

Biography

Along with publishing seven volumes of autobiography, he is known as a critical theorist. He has coined the term 'autofiction

Autofiction

Autofiction is a term used in literary criticism to refer to a form of fictionalized autobiography.Serge Doubrovsky coined the term in 1977 with reference to his novel Fils. Autofiction combines two paradoxically contradictory styles: that of autobiography, and fiction...

', which has now entered the French dictionary.

His cousin is Pierre Clavilier a French writer too who wrote history and biography as the famous Frida Kahlo, les ailes froissées, ed Jasmin 2006.