Bernard Ollivier | |
|---|---|
 Bernard Ollivier in 2015 | |
| Born | 1938 (age 85–86) Manche, France |
| Nationality | French |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist Writer |
Bernard Ollivier (born 1938) is a French journalist and writer, known in particular for his travel stories and as founder of the Seuil Association, a non-profit organization based in France, which seeks to reintegrate young people through walking. [1] [2]
Born in Manche, Ollivier led a career as a political and economic journalist. [3] Upon retirement, he fell into a deep depression. Hoping to shake himself out of it, he decided to walk the Way of St James, from Paris to Santiago de Compostela, Spain. The experience of walking transformed him. By the end of the journey, realizing he wanted to continue walking, he had decided to embark on a long 12,000 km walk from Istanbul, Turkey, to Xi'an, China, along the Great Silk Road. [3] [4] He completed the journey in four separate trips and published the tale in three volumes, the "Longue marche" series. The travel trilogy has been extremely popular in France and has been translated into several other languages, including English. Although he has also published short stories including a collection on the homeless, [5] several longer works of fiction, his best-known works focus on travel. [3] The success of the first volume of Longue marche (Traverse l'Anatolie) enabled him to found the Seuil Association [6] , the goal of which is the reintegration of troubled young people into society by taking long, cellphoneless and chaperoned walks in foreign countries. [7] After meeting Bénédicte Flatet on a canoe trip down the Loire River, he embarked with her on a walk across Europe, from Lyon, France, to Istanbul, Turkey, completing, in a sense, his Silk Road journey at 75 years of age. The pair recount their adventures in an unanticipated fourth volume to the Longue marche series, Suite et fin, published in 2016. In 2019, Ollivier founded an environmental organization—Air.e—in collaboration with Bénédicte Flatet. [8] Air.e's objectives include promoting awareness of the climate crisis and establishing self-sustaining villages. To this end, the association has organized two "Marches pour demain" (Walks for Tomorrow) in Brittany, France, the first in 2021 and the second scheduled for July 2022.
René Dumont was a French engineer in agronomy, a sociologist, and an environmental politician.
Régine Deforges was a French author, editor, director, and playwright. Her book La Bicyclette bleue was the most popular book in France in 2000 and it was known by some to be offensive and to others for its plagiarism, neither of which was proved.
Paul Grimault was one of the most important French animators. He made many traditionally animated films that were delicate in style, satirical, and lyrical in nature.
Jean-Marie Pelt was a French biologist, botanist and pharmacist with degrees in both biology and pharmacy.
Érik Orsenna is the pen-name of Érik Arnoult a French politician and novelist. After studying philosophy and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris, Orsenna specialized in economics at the London School of Economics. He was a close collaborator of François Mitterrand and held several government positions in the 1980s and 1990s. He is a member of the Conseil d'État, having been appointed in 1985. He was elected to the Académie Française on 28 May 1998. He won the 1990 International Nonino Prize in Italy. For Voyage au pays du coton he received the second prize of the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006.
The Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger is a French literary prize created in 1948. It is awarded yearly in two categories: Novel and Essay for books translated into French.
The Roger Nimier Prize is a French literature award. It is supposed to go to "a young author whose spirit is in line with the literary works of Roger Nimier". Nimier (1925–1962) was a novelist and a leading member of the Hussards movement. The prize was established in 1963 at the initiative of André Parinaud and Denis Huisman and is handed out annually during the second half of May. It comes with a sum of 5000 euro.
Marc Trillard is a French writer.
The prix Amerigo-Vespucci is a French literary award established in 1990, during the first International Festival of Geography (IFG) at Saint-Dié-des-Vosges. It rewards works on the theme of adventure and travel and refers to the Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci.
Daniel Arsand is a French writer as well as a publisher specializing in foreign literature.
Rafaël Pividal was a French writer and philosopher.
Michel Robida was a 20th-century French journalist and writer.
Christine Jordis real name Marie-Christine Morel de Foucaucourt is a French writer, journalist and editor, a specialist in English literature.
Nathalie Léger is a writer and the executive director of the Institute for Contemporary Publishing Archives.
France Huser is a French novelist and art critic who lives and works in Paris.
The éditions Phébus is a French publishing house established in 1976 by Jean-Pierre Sicre and taken over in 2003 by the groupe Libella.
Jean Pavans is a French writer and translator, born in Tunis on September 20, 1949.
Anne Rey was a French musicologist, pianist, journalist and educator.
Jean Schalit was a French journalist.
"Lifelong wage" or "personal competency wage" refers to a form of remuneration proposed by Bernard Friot and the French popular education voluntary association Réseau Salariat. At its core is the distinction between work and employment. Publicly funded using social contributions, it would be the building block for a new mode of socioeconomic system.
