Jean-Baptiste Maudet was born in Paris in 1976. He grew up in Bordeaux, then travelled extensively to Spain (where he lived for five years) and America. For the past fifteen years, he has been a teacher-researcher in geography at the University of Pau. He published his first book in 2019, Matador Yankee (Prix Orange du Livre) with Éditions Le Passage, and remains loyal to this publisher for the next two: Des humains sur fond blanc, 2020 (prix Brise Lame) and Tropicale tristesse, 2022 (prix de l’Instant). His novels demonstrate a taste for fiction, humor and poetry, where intertexts and popular culture meet.
