Bussi, Michel

Michel Bussi, born in northern France, is a well-known scientist, since the 1990s a professor of Geo-politics – a speciality within Cultural Geography – at L'université de Rouen where he himself started to study at the age of 18. Until 2016 he was also in charge of Unité mixte de recherche (UMR) at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS). He is also one of the most successful and most prize-winning authors in his native country in the last ten years, and his books have been translated into a number of languages. His best-known works are crime novels in book form and books for children. He lives in Darnétal in the Seine-Maritime region with his wife and a daughter. He also has two adult children from an earlier marriage which ended in divorce.