Édouard Brasey

Édouard Brasey is a French novelist, essayist, scriptwriter and story-teller born on 25 March 1954.

Author of more than seventy works, many of which have been translated into English, Russian, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.

He specialises in the themes of the esoteric, fables, legends and fantasy.

Édouard Brasey was born on 25 March 1954 in Marseille.

He has been interested in the imaginary since his childhood.

He has an entry in Who's Who in France.

and is member of Mensa International.

Graduating from the ESSEC Business School (École Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales), he gained a Master in Private Law at Lyon II-Lumière, a Diploma of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques of Lyon, and a Master in Cinema Studies and Scriptwriting (Paris I-La Sorbonne), with the directors Éric Rohmer et Jean Rouch as professors.

He also trained in the theatre, in story-telling and in commedia dell'arte.

He has been a journalist for Lire, L'Expansion, Challenges, Livres Hebdo, Le Monde de la musique, Le Figaro Madame and L'Usine Nouvelle.

He writes regularly for the review Historia, edits reviews of historical crime novels, and collaborates in special features concerning witchcraft, the devil, medieval legends, superstitions, pirates or fairy-tales.

He collaborates in publications of Historia dedicated to the works of the illustrator Hergé, Tintin et les Forces Obscures and Tintin et la Mer.

Édouard Brasey is the author of nearly seventy works since 1987, comprising investigative documents, essays, chronicles, fictionalised biographies, novels, monographs, collections of fables and illustrated art books.

His works address the themes of the invisible world and spirituality, religions and pagan (notably Celtic) beliefs, fables and legends, and the fantastic.

His first investigative essay, published in 1987 by Ramsay, was dedicated to the literary journalist Bernard Pivot.

Favourably received, it was qualified by Philippe Schuwer in Communication et Langages as « a study that approaches hagiography without having the faults ».

He has also published twelve novels since 1994, in the fields of thriller, crime novel, historical novel or story inspired by legend.

Édouard Brasey thereupon interested himself in the esoteric with l'Enquête sur l'existence des Anges Rebelles in 1995 and the Enquête sur l'Existence des Fées et des Esprits de la Nature in 1996, published by Filipacchi and J'ai Lu.

In 1995, the writer specialised in the domain of legends, notably following an apprenticeship with the story-teller Henri Gougaud.

The book is regularly classified among the best-sellers in electronic format on the platforms Amazon.com and Amazon.fr., the new edition generated more than 2000 downloads in two months.

For Israel Hayom, Edouard Brasey, "a science-fiction writer known for penning thrillers", this novel is eerily similar to the real-life events unfolding in the Vatican.

Between 2005 and 2012 he wrote a collection of fables, Le Cabinet Fantastique, as well as collections of fantasy, French fiction, esoteric writings, essays and illustrated books at Éditions Le Pré aux Clercs.

He authored numerous publications in this domain.

He won a prize of Imaginales in 2006 for La Petite Encyclopédie du Merveilleux, and a prize Merlin in 2009 for his novel La Malédiction de l'Anneau.

Subsequently, he has become essentially a novelist, notably published by Calmann-Lévy.

The book's protagonist is a pope who finds himself in the middle of numerous scandals, yet even a sci-fi guru like Brasey couldn't stretch his imagination to the point where he envisioned the pontiff resigning from his post [...] I wrote this book in 2011 amidst all of the scandals that were being discussed at the time, and which were vividly manifest this past summer with the Vatileaks affair". The newspaper insists of the fact that "Brasey, a former journalist, was the most sought-after pundit in France this week.

Everyone wondered how he managed to sniff out such a significant scoop and present his readers with the story of a troubled pope, so similar to real life.

(...)"

Corine Pirozzi, The Huffington Post, tells that "Édouard Brasey entices us into an adventure totally captivating, fascinating in its occult accents and gives birth to an esoteric thriller of high quality".

"Édouard Brasey has just published a book that presents strange coincidences with actual events at the Vatican. Ex-journalist converted to writing fantastic novels, Édouard Brasey has not given up getting scoops."

Édouard Brasey published Le Dernier Pape in March 2012 in electronic format at Amazon under the title La Prophétie de Pierre, generating 3000 downloads in three months.

His historical-esoteric thriller that was published in 2013, Le Dernier Pape, anticipated the abdication of Benoît XVI.

In Le Dernier Pape (The Last Pope, Éditions Télémaque 2013, Amazon Kindle e-book 2012 and 2014), the pope is dead.

While the pretenders to his succession intrigue in the corridors of the Vatican, gruesomely bloody ritual murders profane places of worship, an atrocious homage to the martyrdom of Saint Peter.

Two thousand years ago, the apostle cast on Rome, the place of his torture, a curse that seems ready to accomplish its purpose: a cosmic menace is about to eliminate the seat of Christianity.

This esoteric thriller is inspired notably by the prophecy of Malachie, and the prophecy of the third secret of Fátima.

He subsequently published it with Éditions Télémaque in January 2013, anticipating by a few weeks the abdication of Pope Benoit XVI, which occasioned numerous articles and interviews in the national and international press.

In 2014 Édouard Brasey published an update to his novel in electronic format under the definitive title Le Dernier Pape et la Prophétie de Pierre, to integrate the latest developments concerning the Vatican, notably the election of Pope François.

He was finalist for the New York Festival Best World's Radio Program 2015 with "The Night Washerwomen", extract from two series of ten short radio programs for the French Radio channel Radio Bleu, "The Little Folk of Halloween" and "The Little Folk of the Legends".

He plays an "expert in superstitions" for the French TV channel France 2.