Samatan. Literary immersion in Lapland with Olivier Truc

The Samatan media library is a partner of Toulouse Polars du Sud, offering readers the privilege of meeting prestigious authors. The writer Olivier Truc kindly lent himself to questions from Dany the media librarian. Fame preceding the author, a very large audience awaited him. Many people have stocked up on these titles from the bookseller Magali present, for a signing at the end of the evening.

Olivier Truc retraced his career, starting as a “narrative” journalist. His first book, “The Imposter” (2006), was very important to him, he confided. Winner of numerous awards, his Books address different themes. The author has written a series that puts Lapland in the spotlight. And to deepen the culture of this Finnish region, territory of the Sami people. He also spoke about his stay in a writing residency in Karachi, an inhospitable city which will also inspire him a novel, “The Dark Paths of Karachi” (2022). After Karachi, it’s back to Lapland. Responding to a listener’s question, Olivier Truc will talk about shamanism in Lapland “of which only traces remain”: within the Nordic Lutheran community, shamanism is considered diabolical. He will give many details about the population of reindeer that he was able to approach while accompanying police patrols for several days.

His title “The First Reindeer” was read and very appreciated by the readers’ club, Dany will specify. The public showed keen interest in these exchanges which will continue with the reading of the books taken.