Winner of the Prix France Culture/T�l�rama prize, The Class explores timely issues of race, class, identity, colonial history, immigration, and education, "suspend[ing] judgment and liberat[ing] the raw words of kids in a deconsecrated classroom" (Le Monde). The novel's eponymous film version, directed by Laurent Cantet, starring author B�gaudeau as himself, won the Palme d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the 2009 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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FRAN�OIS B�GAUDEAU is the author of two novels: Jouer juste (2003) and Dans la diagonale (2005). In 2005, he published a fictional biography of the Rolling Stones titled Rolling Stones: Un d�mocrate Mick Jagger 1960–1969. A filmcritic for the Cahiers du cin�ma and the French version of Playboy, he played in the punk band Zabriskie Point before becoming a teacher in France's public school system.

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