Job Discrimination Exposed: Author’s Name Change Leads to Surge in Offers

"I had inherited my father’s name which was not compatible with a skilled job. I had two masters degrees from the Sorbonne and not a single call for an interview. When I changed my name, replacing Ait-Taleb with Le Clerc, I received hundreds of calls," asserts the writer Xavier Le Clerc in "Un homme sans titre", his third novel published by Gallimard editions.

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This novel is above all a tribute to his father born in Kabylia. Arrived in France in the 1960s, the latter fought all his life to support his family of nine children, France Inter reports. "The man without a title is above all a reference to the fact that my father only had a residence or transport title, never a title of property or nobility," explains Xavier Le Clerc.

He also confided that his father was born in famine, that he had his childhood during the Second World War, his adolescence during the Algerian War which did not yet bear his name. The writer says he is proud of his father’s journey. "It’s an immense lesson in dignity. If I had a few crumbs of his dignity, I would be very proud. The first book of my life is above all my father," he adds.

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