Difficult to stuck Olivier Poivre d'arvor between two aircraft. A day in Berlin, the next day in Tel-Aviv: forty-eight years, the guru of French cultural influence abroad has more than ever restless. And not only by professional duty. "In my childhood, I was runaway", remembers the first Director in title of Culturesfrance, new operator of international cultural exchange resulting from the merger of the French Association of artistic action (Afaa), which he was previously the Director, and the Association for the diffusion of French thought (ADPF). Sort of "British Council to the French", this agency chaired by the former Ambassador of France in Italy, Jacques Blot, will be equipped with an overall budget of EUR 42 million. What put to music some beautiful programs at the four corners of the world.
Warrior, therefore, Olivier Poivre d'arvor. His heroes are called Cendrars, Kessel. But also its distant forebear Pierre Poivre, famous botanist of the 18th century who reported from Java and Sumatra nutmeg, cloves and other spices. "This character has long fascinated us, my brother and I", reveals. Winner in 1987 scholarship villa Médicis Hors les Murs, it will go up to go to the US in the footsteps of the beautiful wife of the adventurer, Françoise Poivre, that courted Bernardin de Saint-Pierre. "I was looking me for roots", explains this Breton heart, if not by birth. An admission that throws a day interesting all the and turns of a particularly rich journey it is not linear.
Because, as his famous elder has immediately found his path, as he was long tâtonné before exclaim in turn: Eureka! While flowing body lost in philosophy studies that will lead to the DEA, it will try successively publishing he was literary Adviser for Albin Michel then Balland , journalism "but this side, I had a bit of competition...". " Theatre he played Calderon, Beckett and Cocteau and founded the company of a Lion before flying to the United States and thus put the space of a year, thousands of kilometres between him and his brother media icon. These years were marked by the literary debut of that which was, between eighteen and twenty years, the private Secretary of Jean-Edern Hallier. Here again, the eclectic prevails. In order: a first test on the marriage, a second on homosexuality and first novel on the theme of impotence.
His track, Olivier pepper of Arvor will the find finally that after his us stay, with his appointment as Director of the French Cultural Centre in Alexandria. Therefore, everything goes to. In 1990, he was given the reins of the French Institute in Prague, four years after those of the French Institute of the United Kingdom. Then, in 1999, Hubert Védrine is at the helm of the Afaa. Three Ministers of Foreign Affairs later, "OPA" marked association of its footprint, including the success of foreign France seasons (the year of China, the year of the Brazil, etc.) and the creation of a Department Africa creations. All large construction sites which have left him the time to start a festival in Toulouse, the Marathon of the words, on the model of the crazy day of Nantes.
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