Resident

Denis Michelis
From 28 November to 19 December 2018

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Fondation Jan Michalski © Tonatiuh Ambrosetti

Biography

Born in 1980 in Germany, Denis Michelis moved to France when he was six years old and is therefore bilingual. He studied literature, English and journalism before working as a TV reporter for Arte for ten years. In 2013, he decided to give everything up and to write a novel, which was published the following year. He also started working as a translator. He had two novels published to date – La chance que tu as(Stock, 2014) and Le bon fils (Notabilia, 2016) – and a third is planned for 2018, along with four translations.