Born in 1962 in Paris, Philippe Forest, having taught in several universities in the United Kingdom (Edinburgh, St Andrews, Cambridge, and London), is now a lecturer at the University of Nantes. A specialist of the avant-garde, he is the author of several essays devoted to Art and literature. He is the author of five award winning novels in France and elsewhere (Italy, Japan). His work has been translated in around ten countries. From the book L'Enfant éternel (devoted to his four year old daughter who died of cancer) to Le Siècle des nuages (where he evokes the story of his father, a fighter pilot and pilot-in-command), his novels deal with the issue of paternity.