Alfred Boudry

Alfred Boudry (born in 1967) began to run creative writing worskhops in 1999, the same year his first short story was published. He then moved to being a playwright, writing a dozen plays ans producing three of them in southern France. In 2003, he started working as a reader for French publisher Au Diable vauvert and soon translated novels: James Flint's The Book of Ash; Nikki Gemmell's The Bride stripped bare; Jeff Noon's Nymphomation; Cintra Wilson's Colors insulting to Nature... In 2008, his first book was published; La Bibliotheque nomedienne was the result of a year-long bilingual writing workshop involving 21 people of 8 nationalities; a borgesian project, it describes the many ways leading to the misplaced continent of Nomedia. His next novel La Digitale (2010) is a science-fiction thriller dealing with perfumes, Greek mythology and computer programming. Les Desamants (with Helena Demirdjian, 2012) was written as a correspondance between British Navy explorer George Bass and his love interest Mlle des X, a French aristocrat fleeing from the Revolution. In 2013 was released online Le Sang de Robespierre, a 1843 epic involving romantic poets, ancient revolutionaries, night-living creatures and a Prophecy by William Blake. In 2014 were released online Les Aventures dialographiques de Sherlock Holmes et du Dr Watson, a collection of #twittfictions previously published on Twitter.

At the current moment, Alfred Boudry is writing (in English, along with French-American writer-designer Julie Mornelli) a novel about suicide, dreams and Stars.