‘It happened to a whole country’: French novelist turns lens on Bataclan attack

'I didn’t want to be in the news, testifying, because I think this event is so huge and you cannot reduce it to emotion, and that’s what the media does,' says Erwan Larher, author of The Book I Didn't Want to Write.

Erwan Larher, a French novelist based in Mirebeau, France, is the author of The Book I Didn't Want to Write, which touches on his experience—and of those close to him—in the wake of the Paris attacks in 2015. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

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BY BEATRICE PAEZ

November 6, 2018

OTTAWA—When reporters and publishers clamoured for him to speak about his experience as a survivor of the Paris attacks, the last thing Erwan Larher wanted to do was to stand as a witness to the terror that unfolded. The nove...

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