Bernard Ollivier

Bernard Ollivier (born 1938) is a French journalist and writer, known in particular for his travel stories, and founder of an association for the reintegration of young people through walking.[1][2]

Bernard Ollivier
Bernard Ollivier in 2015
Born1938 (age 84–85)
Manche, France
NationalityFrench
Occupation(s)Journalist
writer

Life

Born in Manche, Ollivier led a career as a political and economic journalist.[3] After he retired, he decided both to devote himself to writing and to walk to Santiago de Compostela, then undertook a long 12,000 km walk from Istanbul to Xi'an along the silk road.[3][4] As a writer, he publishes short stories including a collection on the homeless,[5] detective novels, but also stories of his travels.[3] The success of his works enabled him to later found the Seuil association[6] for the reintegration of young people in difficulty through walking.[7] In 2019, Ollivier founded the Air.e Association 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.

Publications
  • Longue marche : à pied de la Méditerranée jusqu'en Chine par la route de la soie, Phébus, 4 volumes, volume I, Traverser l'Anatolie (2000); volume II, Vers Samarcande (2001); volume III, Le vent des steppes (2003).[9] (Prix Joseph-Kessel 2001). Volume IV, Longue marche, suite et fin (2016). English translations of the first three volumes are available from Skyhorse Publishing (New York): volume I, Out of Istanbul (2019); volume II, Walking to Samarkand (2020); volume III, Winds of the Steppe (2020), and a translation of volume IV is planned.
  • Nouvelles d’en bas, 2001, Fiction about the homeless in the métro. [5]
  • L’allumette et la bombe,[10] 2007, essay on the suburbs after the 2005 French riots and description of the methods of his association.
  • Carnets d’une longue marche,[11] 2005, watercolors by François Dermaut, and texts by Bernard Ollivier, about the Silk Road.
  • Aventures en Loire,[12] Phébus, 2009, on a 1000 km trip by foot and canoe along the river Loire.[7]
  • La vie commence à 60 ans,[13] 2012.
  • Histoire de Rosa qui tint le monde dans sa main,[14] 2013.
  • Sur le chemin des ducs : la Normandie à pied, de Rouen au Mont-Saint-Michel,[15] 2013.
  • Marche et invente ta vie : adolescents en difficulté, ils se reconstruisent par une marche au long cours,[16] Arthaud, 2015.
  • L'Essence de la Vie : Ils quittent la ville pour vivre de la terre,[17] Arthaud, 2019.

Bibliography
  • Payot, Marianne (7 May 2012). "Aventures en Loire, par Bernard Ollivier" [Adventures in the Loire, by Bernard Ollivier]. L'Express (in French).
  • Albouy, Gérard (2001). "Bernard Ollivier, pas à pas sur les Routes de la Soie" ["Bernard Ollivier, step by step on the Silk Roads]. Le Monde (in French). Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  • Perrin, Jean-Pierre (2001). "La vie devant soie" [Life in front of silk]. Libération (in French). Archived from the original on 12 April 2015. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  • Savigneau, Josayne (2001). "Nouvelles d'en bas, de Bernard Ollivier" [News from below, by Bernard Ollivier]. Le Monde (in French).

References
  1. Bernard Ollivier on Babelio
  2. Biography on FNAC
  3. Perrin 2001.
  4. Albouy 2001.
  5. Savigneau 2001.
  6. "SEUIL". assoseuil.org. Retrieved 28 June 2019.
  7. Payot 2012.
  8. "AIR.E". Retrieved 8 June 2022.
  9. Laetitia Nanquette,; volume IV, Suite et Fin (2016); Orientalism Versus Occidentalism: Literary and Cultural Imaging Between France and Iran Since the Islamic Revolution, I.B.Tauris, 15 April 2013, p. 47-48, 50–55 in line
  10. L’allumette et la bombe on La Croix
  11. Carnets d’une longue marche Archived 29 June 2019 at the Wayback Machine on Phébus
  12. Aventures en Loire
  13. La vie commence à 60 ans on Babelio
  14. Histoire de Rosa qui tint le monde dans sa main on Babelio
  15. Sur le chemin des ducs : la Normandie à pied, de Rouen au Mont-Saint-Michel on Babelio
  16. Marche et invente ta vie : adolescents en difficulté, ils se reconstruisent par une marche au long cours on Le Figaro
  17. L'Essence de la Vie on Babelio
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