Olivier Frébourg.

Olivier Frébourg, born in Dieppe in 1965, is a journalist, writer, foreign correspondent, and publisher. The son of a sea captain and grandson of a fishing boat owner from Douarnenez, he grew up in a maritime environment that would have a profound influence on his work. After starting out in the press, he wrote for Libération, Le Figaro Littéraire, Géo, Le Figaro Magazine, Grands Reportages, Air France Magazine, and several foreign newspapers.

Literary advisor at Éditions du Rocher (1988-1990), then literary director at La Table Ronde (1992-2003), he founded Éditions des Équateurs in 2003. A prolific writer, he has published some fifteen novels and essays, often imbued with nostalgia and marked by the sea and his native Normandy. He received the Prix des Deux Magots in 1989, the Prix François-Victor-Noury from the Institut de France in 2002 for his entire body of work, and the Prix Décembre in 2011 for Gaston et Gustave. A passionate sailor, he was admitted to the Écrivains de marine in 2004.

He is the author of Normandie Sketchbook, published by Éditions du Pacifique.