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Olivier Rolin


Born
in Boulogne-Billancourt, France
May 17, 1947

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Olivier Rolin spent his childhood in Senegal. He then studied at the Louis-le-Grand high school and the Ecole Normale Superieure. He graduated in philosophy and literature.

He works as a freelancer of the French paper Libération and Le Nouvel Observateur. He was the companion of the singer Jane Birkin.

His work is inspired by May 68 and the proletarian Left, romantic adventures in Arabia, the writers Rimbaud and Conrad and his travels.

He received the "Prix Femina" for Port Sudan in 1994, the "Prix France Culture" for Tiger Paper in 2003 and the "price of Style" for The Meteorologist just now in 2014.

He's the brother of the also writer Jean Rolin
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“On se prend à se demander ce qui se serait passé si la folie de Staline, décapitant toutes les élites du pays, scientifiques, techniques, intellectuelles, artistiques, militaires, décimant la paysannerie et jusqu'à ce prolétariat au nom de quoi tout se faisait, dont l'URSS été supposée être la patrie, n'avait pas substitué, comme ressort de la vie soviétique la terreur à l'enthousiasme. [...] Peut-être se serait-il avéré un système infiniment préférable au capitalisme ? Peut-être le monde entier, à part quelques pays arriérés, serait-il devenu socialiste ?

Allons, ne rêvons pas.”
Olivier Rolin, Le météorologue

“Existe um charme na feiura, uma sedução pelo não-pensar, uma vontade de ser fraco e idiota.”
Olivier Rolin, Tigre de Papel

“Uma humanidade sem í é boa para Deus e para o mercado. Alguns contemporâneos, em seu cinismo, parecem não se dar conta disso.”
Olivier Rolin, Tigre de Papel

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