Biography
Olivier F. Delasalle is a French writer, born in Tours (hometown of French writers François Rabelais & Honoré de Balzac) in 1981. He grew up in Ecquevilly, a small town of the Grand Paris area, and developed an early interest in Literature and Cinema.
He wrote his first piece of fiction at age seven, a two-page play set in the Wild West, that was later performed at a birthday party. Encouraged by his grand-father, historian Louis Prades, he never stopped writing.
At the age of 18, having graduated from high school and wanting to be a writer, he started learning screenwriting at the American University of Paris. He committed to spending the next ten years learning the craft of fiction, and created for himself a curriculum that no university could teach. He set on learning new languages (Japanese & Hebrew), traveled on all continents, and studied psychology, journalism, and business. He also studied under the guidance of several experienced writers, and studied Shodo, the Japanese art of calligraphy.
Parallel to his studying of the writing craft, Olivier F. Delasalle graduated from the Sorbonne with a MA in French Literature and Language. After graduating, he started doing numerous daytime jobs, including being an English teacher, an office manager, a translator, a courier, a journalist, and even, once, a super. In 2009, he decided to quit his daytime job, and to spend most of his time writing.
Since then, he has written a dozen short stories and two graphic-novels scripts. His short stories are published at Le Pavé Numerique, a francophone web-based publisher. Reporter, his new piece of fiction, is bound to be published in 2014. He additionally collaborates on a regular basis to beyond-calligraphy.com, a Japan-based website devoted to the ancestral art of Shodo.
Olivier F. Delasalle also has a keen interest in Creative Writing, a subject practically unknown in France. He has created a blog devoted to the topic, writing weekly articles on the technical aspects of a writing life. His blog received over 20,000 connections in 2011.
He lives in Paris, and is currently working on a novel and a non-fiction book on French language.
He wrote his first piece of fiction at age seven, a two-page play set in the Wild West, that was later performed at a birthday party. Encouraged by his grand-father, historian Louis Prades, he never stopped writing.
At the age of 18, having graduated from high school and wanting to be a writer, he started learning screenwriting at the American University of Paris. He committed to spending the next ten years learning the craft of fiction, and created for himself a curriculum that no university could teach. He set on learning new languages (Japanese & Hebrew), traveled on all continents, and studied psychology, journalism, and business. He also studied under the guidance of several experienced writers, and studied Shodo, the Japanese art of calligraphy.
Parallel to his studying of the writing craft, Olivier F. Delasalle graduated from the Sorbonne with a MA in French Literature and Language. After graduating, he started doing numerous daytime jobs, including being an English teacher, an office manager, a translator, a courier, a journalist, and even, once, a super. In 2009, he decided to quit his daytime job, and to spend most of his time writing.
Since then, he has written a dozen short stories and two graphic-novels scripts. His short stories are published at Le Pavé Numerique, a francophone web-based publisher. Reporter, his new piece of fiction, is bound to be published in 2014. He additionally collaborates on a regular basis to beyond-calligraphy.com, a Japan-based website devoted to the ancestral art of Shodo.
Olivier F. Delasalle also has a keen interest in Creative Writing, a subject practically unknown in France. He has created a blog devoted to the topic, writing weekly articles on the technical aspects of a writing life. His blog received over 20,000 connections in 2011.
He lives in Paris, and is currently working on a novel and a non-fiction book on French language.
