Olivier Sourisse

Born in Nantes, he obtained his Floriculture CAPA at the age of seventeen. At the age of twenty, he left to work in the Hengistbury Head nature reserve (England). Back in France, two years later, he worked in various jobs and passed a DAEU in the Humanities section at the University of Nantes. At the turn of the year 2000, he created the web radio Squaly FM and the music publishing label Lemon Shark Music Company. During the first decade of the 2000s, he co-founded the exotic and animal garden "Tropicaland" in Haute Savoie. One of the first precursors in terms of environmental issues through its policy of self-managed nature. In 2011, he moved to Paris and devoted himself to writing for the theatre. Le Poteau was the subject of a public reading at the SACD, directed by Véronique Samakh. Veau Trinité, with Jean Claude Dreyfus, is presented in a public reading in Paris, at the Studio Hébertot. He continued with Stavanger, created by Quentin Defalt for the Avignon Festival. The following year, Le Captif, was created by Frédéric Fage for the Avignon Festival. This was followed by Averse noire, directed by Olivier Oudiou, at the Avignon Festival. As a novelist, he wrote Cortèges, winner of the 2019 Balai de la découverte prize, and Crucifixions. Mes amours souterraines, winner of the 2021 Prix du roman gay - Prix découverte, is his first novel published by Editions Orizons. In June 2022, still with the same publisher, Nãtahãn Willers, le Nouvel-Élu, a novel fantasy, was published.