Olivier Delorme is a French writer born the March 14th 1958.

Biography

Originating in Chalon-sur-Saône, Olivier Delorme was caught very young person passion for the ancient history of the Greece. He makes its first voyage in this country in 1973 and wants to then become archeologist. But at the end of traditional studies and after an aggregation of history, he becomes director of studies of an research institute in modern history, then responsible for collection with French Documentation.

He publishes its first novel in 1996 and consequently devotes the essence of his life to the writing. After having spent two years on small the island-volcano of Nisyros in the Dodécanèse, he again lives Paris since 1999 and collaborates in various publications, of which the free-Hellenic review Desmos it Lien , while teaching the history of the international relations to the Institut of political studies of Paris.

Novels

Shades of raising

Memories apocryphal books of a diplomat withdrawn on a Greek island at the end of its life, the Shades of raising recall the route of youth of Alexandre Granier d' Hautefort, born in Lebanon in the Twenty, quartered between a homosexual education ultra-conformist and his attractions, but also between a destroying passion for Rod, a durable and ludic love with Willy, and fascination for resistant Greek, Eléni. Novel of training whose narrator tests one moment a certain seduction for the Nazi Germany, before engaging, in 1940, in free France, this book involves the reader from Alexandria to Nuremberg and Vichy to Istanbul. One finds there the trace of admirations of Olivier Delorme for the Quartet of Alexandria of Lawrence Durrell, Cités with the drift of Stratis Tsirkas or even for the work of Cavafis. Especially, this first novel noticed by Le Monde of the books describes with sensitivity, humor and passion the Middle East in war, Greece of the dictatorship Métaxas (1936-1941), the Resistance and the beginnings of the civil war.

the Dive

the Dive (H&O, 2002) tells a history where Greece today and ancient mythology interfere themselves, in door-close of an island whose volcano is a character with whole share. In the space of a summer, six friends will see their couples breaking up and to recompose itself, each one choosing with its manner, at the end of the crisis, to make the initiatory dive (related to a worship of Apollon) which, in Antiquity, marked the end of the adolescence of young people of the island and their rebirth with a new life. The vitriol throwing of a worrying German old woman, owner of a village for tourists, and the investigation of the captain of the gendarmerie into this aggression will contribute to make assemble the tension. A tension which will confront one and the other with a past going back with the occupation, the civil war and the coup d'etat of the Colonels; a tension and a past which will also force them them with the dive - but without return that one.

the Castle of silence

the Castle of silence (H&O, 2003) is a " attractive novel which Marie humor more pickling with reflections on the Gnosticisme, the life and the policy. An account which begins all carefully, but which one cannot be detached soon any more” (Runnings away, Quebec). This novel, writing with the first nobody, is that of a married, happy journalist in his work as in its couple, but which will discover, whereas it is sent to Lebanon to cover the regional consequences of the War of the Gulf of 1990, the tragedy of the 1619 Cypriot Greeks missing during the invasion of north of Cyprus (Histoire of Cyprus) by Turkey in 1974. The investigation which the journalist undertakes will lead to a dead end, but, with the wire of the book, is gradually established a curious communication between the free man of its movements, Master of his life, and one of these missings, buried for more than twenty years in a Turkish prison. And it is all the life of the free man who will be some dynamited when it starts to be convinced that the Other, death-alive, seeks it to live through him the life which one deprived it. And if the journalist, bachelor of his work, whose couple seems sudden to make shipwreck, were not as heterosexual as he thought it? And if the rationalism of the narrator were not enough to give an account of realities to which it is confronted? And if the Gnose, towards which the sister of the missing directed, allowed contrary to the " comprendre" ? And if God were bad? … The account becomes haletant, strange then, to reach in extreme cases of the reason and the madness.

the Fourth Revelation

“Theological Thriller and policy” ( Metro , 11/25/2005), “much more than one simple Da Vinci Code gay” (Laurent Bonelli, the Set of Pink Tv), “thriller total and provocant, which must as much with James Ellroy as with Alexandre Dumas” ( the Echoes , 1/24/2006), the Fourth Revelation (H&O, 2005) starts in a Greek island, Parigoros, then takes along the reader to Athens, Paris, London and Saint-Pétersbourg. The central figure is a political judge in charge of of corruption affairs which threw sponge by see buried the files that it had in load. Joining again with the Byzantine studies of his youth, ex-judge Julien Bergeret left with Nikos, his companion, in Parigoros where a recommendation enables him to have access to the oldest manuscripts of the library of the Monastère of the island. It is there that he discovers a covered parchment of phallic signs of which he ends up boring the mystery: that of a writing encrypted hiding an account of the life of Paul de Tarse, or holy Paul, not very in conformity with the tradition of the Church. Begin then a double suspense with the wire of which a probable candidate with the next presidential election in France proves ready with very to recover a compromising document of which it is certain that it remained in possession of the ex-judge, whereas the Primum Agmen Christi , congregation reactionary close to the the Vatican, is also shown determined to prevent the scandalous revelation on Paul saint, “true founder of Christianity, and two thousand year old person in charge of Homophobie in the Christian companies” ( Le Monde of the books , 11/25/2005). Handling, intimidations… this novel is at the same time a criticism in rule of the Christianisme and political practices of our time, a criticism which seems all the more relevant as, appeared in September 2005, it puts in scene financial circuits of bleaching of rétrocommissions of a market of weapons, semi-official dispensaries and methods of destabilization between two présidentiables of the same camp (a Prime Minister and a Minister of Interior Department…), which curiously recalls certain developments of the business Clearstream revealed to spring 2006. As much to say that the history maintains the reader in breath, mixing humor and cruelty, until an end worthy of the Count of Assembles-Cristo , with the favor of which Hermes takes its revenge on Paul saint.

News

Olivier Delorme published three news in collective collections:

• “the tokay sounds always twice” (in the First Feast , H&O, 2003), which puts in scene with humor, and under the auspices of Sissi, a meeting in love between a Palestinian and an Israeli, who starts in a Turkish bath of Budapest and finishes a certain September 11th… with two steps of the World Trade Center.

• “children of February” ( Tattooings, a history and stories , Beautiful Letters, 2005), on the friendship between two sponge fishermen of Kalymnos at time when this fishing held more of the Russian roulette livelihood.

• “Swing with the hotel of the Pinks” ( Phantom of the jazz , Beautiful Letters, 2006) is a history with fantastic tonality in which two men, British, meet, in Greece of 1945, just released. One is officer in a unit of mine clearance, married; the other is its subordinate, he failed to die by unpriming a mine with Florence, he is openly homosexual and fanatic of the music of Glenn Miller… which disappeared the very same day where the two men made knowledge. In Rhodos which leaves a long seat and famine, a solid friendship is tied between them. Until, on the air of In the Mood , one evening, with the hotel of the Pinks… Are space and time single and linear? Or they conceal faults: that in which did disappear the plane from major Glenn Miller? that which would allow two beings which missed their meeting, because one of them, with a crossroads, refused to live its life, to find themselves, despite everything, in another time?

Preface

In January 2006, Olivier Delorme publishes the foreword with the republication in collection of pocket, also at H&O, of Because it was him of Roger Stephan.

Historical publications

Olivier Delorme is joint author, with Brigitte Stern and Habib Gherari, of: War of the gulf, the file of an international crisis, 1990-1992 (French Documentation, 1993), chapters devoted to the war of Algeria in the Memories of Bernard Tricot (Voltaire Quay, 1994), as well as Dictionary of the international relations at the 20th century (direction of Maurice Vaïsse; Armand Colin, 2nd edition, 2005).

It published articles or contributions in the review Espoir , the Cahiers of the Foundation Charles de Gaulle (in particular " Bernard Tricot and the negotiation of Évian" , n° 8,2001), acts of the conference De Gaulle in her century (Plon, French Documentation, Charles de Gaulle Institute, 1991), the review Historia , or on Internet site " www.leboucher.com ".

For the free-Hellenic review Desmos it Bond , it wrote many criticisms, chronological or biographical notes, in particular on Georges Séféris, as well as the following articles:

• "Dodécanèse" , n°2/2000;

• "Discussion with Jacqueline de Romilly, n° 10-11/2002;

• "France and Greece vis-a-vis the Cypriot question until 1963 through the diplomatic files françaises" (n° 16/2004, also published in the n°14, 2004 of the Books of the Foundation Charles de Gaulle );

• "At the origins of Large Catastrophe" , n° 21/2006.

External bonds

• Maintenance given to Infogrece.com after the publication of the '' Plongeon ''

• Retranscription of its cat on the site " Internaute" in connection with '' the Fourth Revelation ''
• Maintenance on '' the Fourth Revelation ''
• Maintenance on '' the Fourth Revelation '' for the Swiss cultural magazine '' Murmures ''

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