Alain Damasio


Alain Damasio is a French writer of sci-fi and fantasy. He also works as a scriptwriter for comics, radio fictions, movie and TV series. He is also notable as an audio and spoken word artist.

Biography

Alain Damasio was born in Lyon. his father was a self-employed car body mender, his mother was "Agrégée" in English. Alain Damasio graduated from high school in science. He then passed the exam to enter one of the top French business schools, the ESSEC Business School. He graduated in 1991. Then he chose a solitary retreat, first in Vercors and then in Nonza to write. His favorite field of specialization being futuristic politics. He blends in this genre elements of sci-fi and fantasy.
As a young man he wrote many short stories. His first long fiction was La Zone du Dehors, a futuristic novel dealing with a model of society under control on a democratic model.
His second novel was rewarded with the Grand Prize of Imaginary Writing in 2006, in the works of fiction category: La Horde du Contrevent. This novel comes with a soundtrack composed by Arno Alyvan. It was a great success and sold 120,000 copies; this book is regularly quoted as a must-read of French sci-fi books.
In 2008, he lends his voice to Bora, a piece of music by Rone.
In 2009, he wrote La Rage du Sage, a poetic and political essay on our times, for the free single of the group Sliver.
Alain Damasio also writes the script of WindWalkers, an animation film taken from La Horde du Contrevent with Jan Kounen as director and Marc Caro as art director.
In 2019, he published Les Furtifs, his most recent novel. In collaboration with the composer Yan Péchin, he has developed a musical environment based on this novel in an album called Entrer dans la couleur.

Works

Collected Short Stories

Alain Damasio is co-founder of Dontnod Entertainment with Aleksi Briclot, Hervé Bonin, Jean Maxime Moris and Oscar Guilbert. He was director of the narrative department from 2008 to 2010, then he commits this job to Stéphane Beauverger to dedicate himself to his next projects Les Furtifs and Fusion. He has written the first two narrative bibles of the AAA game Remember Me before directing a writing workshop of seven people so as to complete the bible of a thousand pages and the first version of the script. Remember Me was published in June 2013 and had sold 2.1 million copies.
Remember Me was awarded the prize of the best script at the Paris Games Awards.

Audio creations

Alain Damasio is particularly interested in the music of words and in the potentialities of sound as language. He worked repeatedly on sound versions of his texts but also created a soundwalk: La Sansouïre.
Soundtracks and videos of his numerous conferences are available on the ActuSF website.

Literary Prizes