His best-known novel, Les Bienveillantes, was originally published in France in August 2006, and rights have been sold in 31 countries. It won the most prestigious literary prize in France, La Prix Goncourt, as well as the Academie Française’s Prix de Littérature. He has also written articles on the wars in Georgia, Chechnya, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Syria for Le Monde, The Guardian and The London Review of Books, amongst others.