In 2011 Delphine de Vigan won a number of literary prizes for the novel Nothing holds back the night in which she depicts her experiences from growing up with a bipolar mother who eventually took her own life in 2008. Vigan has just released the sequel Based on a true story that presents her considerations and reservations about publishing her family story in shape of a novel. In this book she also poses the question whether it is really possible to discover the truth about another human being.

Read and meet the author

You can meet Delphine de Vigan when she visits Aarhus and the international author stage Authors in Aarhus in the Aula at Aarhus University Wednesday September 21. After the event Authors in Aarhus arranges a reading group on the novels Nothing holds back the night and Based on a true story at Viby Public Library Monday October 10. All are welcome even if you have read only one of the novels or part of them. The event will be held in Danish.

You can read more about the event with Delphine de Vigan here and more about the free reading group here (in Danish).