About Sylvain Tesson
Sylvain Tesson is a French writer and traveller born in Paris. He has engaged in a number of unusual travels and expeditions which are the basis for his books. Among his most successful works are The Consolations of the Forest (2011), about a project to live alone in a Siberian cabin for six months and The Art of Patience (2019), about the quest for snow leopards in Tibet. For the latter book, he received the Prix Renaudot.
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Awards & Honors
Prix Renaudot
Prix littéraire de l'armée de terre - Erwan Bergot
Prix Goncourt de la nouvelle
Knight of the National Order of Merit
Prix Médicis essai
Q47530621
Prix de la nouvelle
Prix de la Page 112
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Q88372522
Aurita
Q131140115
