Jean-Michel Olivier: «Literature is a kind of banquet for the departed».»

Jean-Michel Olivier is the only Swiss author to have won the Prix Interallié. On the occasion of the publication of his new book, Lucie d'enfer, the Genevan writer shares his vision of literature, and of the femme fatale at the center of the story.

Jean-Michel Olivier lives in the Grottes district of Geneva, near the «Smurfs», those strange buildings that could have been built by Gaudi. A writer and retired French and English teacher at Collège de Saussure, he received the Prix Michel-Dentan in 2004 for his story L'Enfant secret. He is also the only Swiss writer to have won the Prix Interallié, which he received in 2010 for his novel L'Amour nègre. In November 2020, the Geneva-based writer published a new story with Editions de Fallois, Lucie d'enfer, a «dark tale». In it, Simon, a lost writer, pursues a certain Lucie, a woman he has never met.