Jean-Marie Blas de Robles

Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès is a French writer, poet, philosopher and archaeologist. In 2008 he won the Prix Médicis for his novel "Là où les tigres sont chez eux".

Born in 1954 in Sidi Bel Abbes, he repatriated to France with his parents after the independence of Algeria, he spent his adolescence in Provence, in the Var. He then studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and history at the College de France.

After graduating, he taught French literature in Brazil (1981-1982), China (1983-1984) and then in Sicily, and Taiwan.

From 1986 he became a member of the French Archaeological Mission in Libya and participates each summer for underwater excavations of Apollonia of Cyrene, Leptis Magna and Sabratha in Tripoli.

Since 1996, he devoted himself exclusively to writing.