Olivier Rolin
Olivier Rolin (born May 17, 1947 in Boulogne-Billancourt , Hauts-de-Seine department , France ) is a French author .
Life
Olivier Rolin spent his childhood in Senegal . He attended the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris . A graduate of the Paris Ecole Normale Supérieure he made in the fields of philosophy and literature .
In May 1968 , Olivier Rolin, like his two years younger brother Jean Rolin, was a member of the Maoist proletarian left , the Gauche prolétarienne (GP). He was a member of the military branch of the GP, the Nouvelle résistance populaire (NRP), which was preparing for the revolutionary struggle. Since the GP did not engage in any violent action proposed by the NRP, it remained peaceful until the collapse of the Gauche prolétarienne in 1975.
After extensive travels around the world, Rolin published novels and geography-related books from the mid-1980s, some of which were awarded prizes. He occasionally wrote as a freelance author for the daily newspapers La Liberation and Le Nouvel Observateur . For a number of years he has been writing for the magazine Le Meilleur des mondes .
Rolin was in a relationship with the singer Jane Birkin for some time . He lives in Paris and works for the Paris publishing house Éditions du Seuil .
Prizes and awards
- 1994: Prix Femina for the novel Port-Soudan .
- 2003: Prix France Culture for Tigre en papier .
Works
- Novels
- Phenomène futur . Éditions du Seuil , Paris 1983
- Bar des flots noirs . Seuil, Paris 1987
- L'Invention du monde . Seuil, Paris 1993
- Port-Soudan . Seuil, Paris 1994 ISBN 2-02-022098-9
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Méroé . Seuil, Paris 1998
- Translator Jürgen Ritte : Meroe. Novel. Berlin Verlag , 2002 ISBN 3-8270-0436-5 ; again Liebeskind Verlag , 2017
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Tigre en paper . Seuil, Paris 2002
- Übers. Sabine Herting: The paper tigers of Paris. Novel. Blessing, Munich 2003 ISBN 3-89667-236-3
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Un chasseur de lions . Seuil, Paris 2008
- Übers. Doris Heinemann: A lion hunter . Novel. Berlin Verlag, 2013 ISBN 978-3-8270-1051-3
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Le Météorologue . Seuil, Paris 2014 (via the Russian meteorologist Alexei Wangenheim ).
- Übers. Holger Fock, Sabine Müller: The meteorologist . Novel. Liebeskind, Munich 2015 ISBN 978-3-95438-049-7
- with Érik Desmazières: Á y regarder de prés . Seuil, Paris 2015 ISBN 978-2-02-128283-2
- Geographical works
- En Russie . Ed. Quai Voltaire, Paris 1987
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Bakou, derniers jours . Seuil, Paris 2010 ISBN 978-2-02-100017-7
- Übers. Holger Fock, Sabine Müller: Last days in Baku . Report . Liebeskind, Munich 2013 ISBN 978-3-95438-023-7
- Sibérie . Éditions Inculte, Paris 2011 ISBN 978-2-916940-51-9
- Solovki , la bibliothèque perdue , with photos by Jean-Luc Bertini. Ed. Le Bec en l'air, 2014
Web links
- Author's website (fr.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Portrait of the hunter as a blunt log. FAZ , July 16, 2014, p. 10; FAZ text online at bücher.de , also a text by Perlentaucher
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rolin, Olivier |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French travel writer and novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Boulogne-Billancourt , Hauts-de-Seine department , France |