Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, born in 1960 in Lyon,
is a French playwright, writer, essayist and director. One of the most productive
authors of our time, Schmitt definitely belongs to the ranks of indispensable,
most widely read and most present contemporary Francophone authors. His works
have been translated into fifty languages, and his plays have been performed in more than
fifty countries. The cycle of the Invisible , which includes four stories about childhood
and spirituality, which are experiencing great success both in bookstores and on
stage: Milarepa (1997), Lord Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Qur'an (2001), Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2002) and Noah's Child (2004). They perform
on the theater stages of France, Great Britain, the USA and Germany. Years
In 2016, he became a member of the jury of the Academy of Goncourt. Today he lives in Brussels.
