Sylvain Tesson

Sylvain Tesson born 26 April 1972 is a French writer and traveller born in Paris He has engaged in a number of unusual travels and expeditions which are the basis for his books Among his most successful works are The Consolations of the Forest 2011 about a project to live alone in a Siberian cabin for six months and The Art of Patience 2019 about the quest for snow leopards in Tibet For the latter book he received the Prix Renaudot Sylvain Tesson is the son of MarieClaude Tesson and the journalist Philippe Tesson who founded the French newspaper Le Quotidien de Paris His sisters are the actress Stephanie Tesson and the art journalist Daphne Tesson He is a geographer by background and holds a degree in geopolitics In 1991 he crossed central Iceland on a motorcycle and then took part in a cave exploration in Borneo In 1993 and 1994 he toured the world by bicycle with Alexandre Poussin whom he had known since secondary school The two friends then completed their studies in geography He wrote about the trip in 1996 in the book On a roulé sur la terre for which he received the youth IGN prize Again with Poussin in 1997 he crossed the Himalaya by foot a fivemonth journey of 5000 kilometers from Bhutan to Tajikistan He and Poussin then collaborated on the book La Marche dans le ciel 5000 km à pied à travers lHimalaya in 1998 In 1999 and 2000 he and photographer Priscilla Telmon crossed the steppes of central Asia from Kazakhstan to Uzbekistan on horseback That trip led to two books La Chevauchée des steppes in 2001 and Carnets de Steppes à cheval à travers lAsie centrale in 2002 In 2001 and 2002 he participated in archeological expeditions in Pakistan and Afghanistan From May 2003 to January 2004 he followed the route allegedly used by Sławomir Rawicz to escape the gulag as Rawicz described in his book The Long Walk 1955 Rawicz travelled from Yakutsk in Siberia to Calcutta in India on foot Tesson concluded the journey was plausible though there are inconsistencies such as Rawiczs claim of ten days without water in the Gobi Tesson wrote a book with photographer Thomas Goisque based on this experience Sous létoile de la liberté Six mille kilomètres à travers lEurasie sauvage Under the star of liberty Six thousand kilometers across the Eurasian wild In 2010 Tesson undertook a project to live alone for six months on the shores of Lake Baikal in a rustic cabin during winter about 50 km north of Irkutsk In his own words the recipe for happiness a window on Baikal a table by the window He recounted his time in Siberia in a book The Consolations of the Forest Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga It won the 2014 Dolman Best Travel Book Award He also released a film titled Alone 180 days on Lake Baikal 2011 directed by Tesson and Florence Tran and the book was adapted into the drama film In the Forests of Siberia 2016 directed by Safy Nebbou and starring Raphaël Personnaz Between 2011 and 2018 Tesson was the president of an NGO La Guilde Européenne du Raid In 2015 he won the Prix de la Page 112 Source Article Sylvain Tesson from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30