Éric Richer was born in Avignon in 1971. He grew up with 7 dogs, read a lot, studied cinema, filmed, projected, and went to Japan. There, he makes a documentary, comes back, and returns in the darkness of the projection booths. His first novel, La rouille (L’Ogre Editions, August 2018), was very well received by booksellers, received the Prix des rencontres à lire from Dax and the Prix des librairies Payot 2019. Tiger is his second novel.