Ann’s Warehouse (where “History of Violence” also had a successful run three years ago). Ostemeier reteams with Louis for “Who Killed My Father,” which opened on Sunday at Brooklyn’s St. That work, “History of Violence,” was adapted into a three-person play by the German director Thomas Ostermeier that deployed actors holding iPads and iPhones to record the action.
He followed that success with an equally sensational novel based on his experiences surviving rape and attempted murder on Christmas Eve when he was just 20. He published his first novel at age 22, a poignant semiautobiographical account of growing up gay and poor in a working-class town in France.
Still shy of his 30th birthday, Édouard Louis has become something of a wunderkind in French intellectual circles.
