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Olivier Rolin was born in Boulogne Billiancourt, France, in 1947 and spent his childhood in Senegal.
A former student at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, he studied both
philosophy and French Classical Literature.
Rolin has published works in fiction and non-fiction and written for the French daily Liberation and
for the weekly magazine Nouvel Observateur. He is an editor for the French
publisher Le Seuil and for the magazine Le Meilleur des mondes. Since
2007, he has hosted a series of conferences at the Académie de France
in Rome at the Villa Médicis.
Rolin won the Prix Femina for his book Port-Soudan and was
nominated for the 2003 Goncourt prize for Tigre en papier. His latest book to be published in the U.S. is Hotel Crystal, due out in May.
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