Guillaume de Fonclare

Guillaume de Fonclare’s Inside My On Skin, translated from the French by Yves Henri Cloarec was winner of the Third Annual Loose Translations Award, co-sponsored by Hanging Loose and Queens College-CUNY. Guillaume de Fonclare was born in Pau in 1968 and spent his early childhood in Combovin, a small village in the Drôme region, until 1973 when his family moved to Lambesc near Aix-en-Provence. He was director of the Historial, the Museum of the Great War at Péronne in the Somme, for many years, but resigned for health reasons in 2010. He is married and has two children.  Inside My Own Skin, which in 2010 won the Prix Essai France Televisions, the Prix Jacques de Fouchier and the Prix Paroles de Patients, was his first book. It’s a humanist book, identifying with those who have been struck to their core by the violence of war, proof positive that writing can be one of the most therapeutic forces in life.