Name	Frederic Beigbeder
Height
Naionality	Franch
Date of Birth	21-September-1965
Place of Birth	Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Famous for	Acting

Frederic Beigbeder is a French writer and literary critic. He won the Prix Interallie in 2003 for his novel Windows on the World and the Prix Renaudot in 2009 for his book Un roman francais. He is also the creator of the Flore and Sade Awards.

Beigbeder was born into a privileged family in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine. His mother, Christine de Chasteigner, is a translator of mawkish novels (Barbara Cartland et al.); his brother is Charles Beigbeder, a businessman. He studied at the Lycee Montaigne and Louis-le-Grand, and later at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris. Upon graduation at the age of 24, he began work as an advertising executive, author, broadcaster, publisher, and dilettante.

In 2002, he presented the TV talk show "Hypershow" on French channel Canal +, co-presented with Jonathan Lambert, Sabine Crossen and Henda. That year he also advised French Communist Party candidate Robert Hue in the presidential election. In 2005, he was, with others authors as Alain Decaux, Richard Millet and Jean-Pierre Thiollet, one of the Beirut Book Fair's guests in the Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center, commonly (BIEL).