Hugo Horiot

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Hugo Horiot, 2018

Julien Hugo Sylvestre Horiot (born August 3, 1982 in Dijon ) is a French writer and director . In addition to his work in the theater and as a director, he is an activist for autistic people . He currently lives in Paris .

biography

Hugo Horiot was diagnosed with Asperger's autism at an early age . After isolating himself in his childhood, he decided to leave behind the self-imposed isolation of his early years. His mother, the writer Françoise Lefèvre , wrote the book Le Petit Prince cannibale in 1990 , which contains her view of life with her then eight-year-old son. At the age of 13 he made his first film Hugo parle de Sylvestre with Sacha Wolff, a friend. In 2005 he joined the Théâtre du jour d'Agen and began his acting career. Since then, Hugo Horiot has worked as an actor and director in the theater, including taking part in the stage production of his autobiography, which was published in 2013. According to his own statements, he does not see himself “cured from autism”, but rather “learned to live with it”. As an activist, he is committed to increasing the understanding and acceptance of autism in society and helping those affected. Hugo Horiot has appeared in television programs and documentaries on the subject of autism, including in Mon univers à part by French director Sophie Robert from 2014. He is now a father himself.

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In 2013 his book L'Empereur c'est moi was published by L'Iconoclaste, which has since been translated into three languages. In it he describes autobiographically his childhood and the difficulties he was exposed to. Horiot describes the content of his book as a "story of self-liberation" and emphasizes again and again that he is not addressing autism in general, but his very personal story. In the same year he received the French literary prize Prix ​​Paroles de patients for this work . In 2015, the Hanser Literaturverlage published the German edition Der König bin ich, translated by Bettina Bach .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ actes-sud.fr: Le Petit Prince cannibale
  2. ↑ a b hanser-literaturverlage.de: Hugo Horiot
  3. ↑ dragonbleutv.com: Mon univers à part
  4. ↑ a b 20minutes.fr: Journée mondiale de l'autisme: Hugo Horiot, un autiste devenu acteur de sa vie
  5. ↑ hugohoriot.com: L'Empereur c'est moi
  6. ^ Sigrid Brinkmann: Poetic reckoning of an autistic person: Far away from this world , literary magazine Lesart , Deutschlandradio Kultur , September 14, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Horiot, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Horiot, Julien Hugo Sylvestre (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and director
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Dijon