Arnaud Dubois was born in 1978 in France. After his degree in philosophy, Arno Dubois became a press corrector at les Cahiers du cinéma, Télérama and Courrier International. His obsession for his ancestor’s linguistic past—a bilingual french-armenian family from Egypt—pushed him to formulate the paradox that French is not his real mother tong although he is talentless in learning other languages. La langue paternelle is his first novel.