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Vincent Delecroix

Biography

Vincent Delecroix

Vincent Philippe Pierre Maurice Delecroix is a French philosopher and novelist. He is a specialist on Søren Kierkegaard, on whom he did his doctoral thesis. He has published 10 full-length works on philosophy and teaches at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. He has published eight full-length works of fiction.

Vincent Delecroix

Books by Vincent Delecroix

Small Boat
written by Vincent Delecroix, translated by Helen Stevenson - Fiction

In November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsized in the English Channel, causing the deaths of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, nearly three hours later, all but two of the migrants had died, the worst single loss of life ever to occur in the Channel. Vincent Delecroix’s acclaimed SMALL BOAT is a fictional first-person account of the French navy officer who took the migrants’ calls --- and her attempts to justify the indefensible. Accused of failing in her duty, she refuses to be held more responsible than others for this disaster, than the crises behind these tragedies. What unfolds is a gripping, thought-provoking examination of the darkest threat to our humanity.