His first two novels – Mettre fin (Le Passeur, 1996) and La Baie (Editions du Rouergue, 1999) – were books about silence, breakdown and the inability to communicate.   
With La Nuit je marche, Franck has tried to shift his point of view, to look at things from another perspective: he no longer writes about characters who withdraw, but looks at those who yearn and long for life. Even though, as he admits, "Writing about absence is easier, it's a way of being present." But writing about people who are alive? As in his first two works, adolescence is still a strong theme, but this time there are no suicides, no separations, but rather the idea of a transition, the story of a half-real, dreamlike passage from childhood to adulthood, the meeting – in just one night of escape – between Laurent (aged 15) and Ludovic (aged 30). One of them yearns to explore, whilst the other has just begun to live. On the one hand is the voice of his parents, who want to keep him close, and on the other, the friend who has become a "courier", who guides what he should see.
A graduate in cinematography and audiovisual studies (including a postgraduate diploma in the aesthetics and psychoanalysis of images), Franck is also a screenwriter, an author of radio fiction for adults and children (seven of his pieces were aired on France Culture in early 2000), a director of short films and a consultant reader for a number of television channels. Ample evidence that he already understands how to work with different points of view in his writing.

Achievements since winning the grant
In 2001, Franck wrote Chez qui?, a short story written for radio broadcast on France Culture. In 2002, he published several narratives and short stories, then a children’s novel, Née de la dernière pluie (Le Rouergue), which won the Incorruptibles Prize, awarded by schools and librarians. He also reworked La Baie for a cinema adaptation, moving the setting to Taiwan.  
In 2005, he translated Le Cri into German and worked on a novel whose setting alternates between Andalusia, Spain and Tangiers, Algeria.
Lastly, in 2006, an extract of La nuit je marche and a number of photographs were published in the magazine "Eponyme" (Editions Joca seria), as well as a short story and photographs for the Astrée bookstore (Editions la Maison Bleue).