Born in 1991, François Pieretti grew up in a little village, surrounded by fields and forests, deep in the Seine-et-Marne, near Paris. Incredibly well qualified thanks to many strategies that have little to do with learning, he is above all proud of his permit that allows him to go walking wherever he likes.

He likes late night and early morning radio voices, small towns, rivers, watching people go about their daily lives, reading novels by Jim Harrison, Julien Gracq, Patrick Modiano, Gabriel García Márquez and Paul Auster, and spending long moments with other people’s dogs, while waiting for his own.