Serge Brussolo (born 31 May 1951) is a French fiction author.

Biography

Born in

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

, Brussolo had a tormented childhood. He studied letters and

psychology Psychology is the scientific study of mind and behavior. Psychology includes the study of conscious and unconscious phenomena, including feelings and thoughts. It is an academic discipline of immense scope, crossing the boundaries betwe ...

and wrote his first texts very early, finding inspiration in his misery and disturbed family environment. The blackness of his first novels set the tone for all of his future work. At the beginning of his career, publishers rejected him because of his style – which, although close to

fantasy Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving Magic (supernatural), magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy ...

and

science fiction Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel unive ...

cannot easily be categorised under any genre. He persevered because he could not consider a future without writing. His work was first published in fanzines. His first published text was ''The Escaped Prisoner'' published in 1972 in ''The Wedged Paddle''. This was followed by a great number of novels published in the ''Anticipation'' and ''Presence of the future'' series. Another of his works, ''Les semeurs d'abîmes'', won the

Prix Tour-Apollo Award The Prix Tour-Apollo was an annual French juried award established in 1972 by Jacques Sadoul with the assistance of Jacques Goimard. Its name was chosen in reference to the Apollo 11 rocket. The award was given to the best science fiction novel pu ...

in 1984. His 1992 science fiction novel was translated into English in 2016 entitled ''

The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome ''The Deep Sea Diver's Syndrome'' is a Science Fiction novel by Serge Brussolo, the first of over 150 novels by the French Author to be translated into English. It was originally published in 1992, and was later translated into English by Edward ...

''. Later he gave up science fiction in favour of other narrative forms, in particular the thriller and the historical novel. His first thriller, ''The Vermin'', contained all of the ingredients of his later suspense novels. In his thrillers he denounces the problems of society, in particular that of the United States. To maintain his creative freedom Brussolo works with several publishers whom he puts in competition with one another, relying on the high sales figures his books achieve. He has also published under the pseudonyms Kitty Doom, D. Morlok, Akira Suzuko and Zeb Chillicothe.

Film adaptations

In 2003, his novel ''A l'image du dragon''''A l'image du dragon''
(Gérard de Villiers, 1992; )- Retrieved 2019-02-03 was freely adapted into an animated motion picture, ''

The Rain Children ''The Rain Children'' (french: Les Enfants de la pluie) is a 2003 French and South Korean animated fantasy film directed by Philippe Leclerc. The plot is loosely inspired by Serge Brussolo's novel ''A l'image du dragon''. Plot Since the Great S ...

'', by Philippe Leclerc. In 2009, his best-selling novel ''Les Emmurés'' was adapted into an English-language film entitled ''

Walled In ''Walled In'' is a Canadian-made 2009 horror- thriller directed and co-written by Gilles Paquet-Brenner and starring Mischa Barton, Cameron Bright, and Deborah Kara Unger. The film is based on the best-selling French novel ''Les Emmurés'' b ...

''.

References

General references

Roger Bozzetto and Arthur B. Evans, "The Surrealistic Science Fiction of Serge Brussolo." ''Science-Fiction Studies'' Vol. 24.3 (Nov. 1997): 430–440.

External links

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