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Olivier Truc
Based in Stockholm since 1994, Olivier Truc is an award-winning, internationally acclaimed French writer, journalist, TV documentary director and producer, and scriptwriter. He was previously the Nordic and Baltic regional correspondent for French broadsheet Le Monde and has produced, amongst other projects, a 52-minute-long documentary about China in the Arctic. Olivier has also written graphic novels, short stories and non-fiction books, including L’Imposteur (2006, Calmann-Lévy), Dykaren som exploderade (2008, Norstedts), and L’affaire Nobel (2019, Grasset) based on personal stories, in-depth portraits and interviews. In addition to the five bestselling crime novels in the Reindeer Police series, he has published a historical novel, The Cartographer of the Boreal Indies (2019, Métailié), The Dark Paths of Karachi (2022, Métailié), a thriller set between Pakistan and France, and L'inconnue du port (2023, Points/Alfaguara), written together with Spanish co-author Rosa Montero. L'inconnue du port is currently being adapted by Netflix.
