Bernard Ollivier

Born in Manche, Ollivier led a career as a political and economic journalist.[3] After he retired,[4] he decided both to devote himself to writing and to walk to Santiago de Compostela, then undertook a long 12,000 km walk from Istanbul to Xi'an along the silk road.[3][5] As a writer, he publishes short stories including a collection on the homeless,[6] detective novels, but also stories of his travels.[3] The success of his works enabled him to later found the Seuil association[7] for the reintegration of young people in difficulty through walking.[4][8]

• Longue marche : à pied de la Méditerranée jusqu'en Chine par la route de la soie, Phébus, 4 volumes, volume I, Traverser l'Anatolie (2000); volume II, Vers Samarcande (2001); volume III, Le vent des steppes (2003).[9] (Prix Joseph-Kessel 2001).
• Nouvelles d’en bas, 2001, Fiction about the homeless in the métro. [6]
• L’allumette et la bombe,[10] 2007, essay on the suburbs after the 2005 French riots and description of the methods of his association
• Carnets d’une longue marche,[11] 2005, watercolors by François Dermaut, and texts by Bernard Ollivier, about the silky road.
• Aventures en Loire,[12] Phébus, 2009, on a 1000 km trip by foot and canoe along the river Loire.[8]
• La vie commence à 60 ans,[13] 2012
• Histoire de Rosa qui tint le monde dans sa main,[14] 2013
• Sur le chemin des ducs : la Normandie à pied, de Rouen au Mont-Saint-Michel,[15] 2013
• Marche et invente ta vie : adolescents en difficulté, ils se reconstruisent par une marche au long cours,[16] Arthaud, 2015