Thomas Flahaut was born in 1991 in Montbeliard. After studying theatre in Strasbourg, he took a writing course at the Haut Ecole de Arts in Berne. He lives, studies and works in Lausanne, where he co-founded the Franco-Swiss literary collective Heterotrophes. At the same time he has published short pieces in French language journals, focussing on the relationship between his generation and the workplace or the work of the factory.
Ostwald, his first novel, has been published in 2017.