Patrick Erouart-Siad

Patrick Erouart-Siad, real name Patrick Erouart (born 16 January 1955, Savigny-sur-Orge) is a French writer.

Biography Born of a French father and a Somali mother of Djibouti, he spent his early years in Djibouti, then returned to France in the Paris region, spent two years in Madagascar and four years in Senegal before traveling around the world.

He was a resident of the Villa Médicis from 1989 to 1991, and has been living in New York city since 1996.

He works with director Jacques Sarasin on a DVD and a film about Joseph Stiglitz. He has collaborated with magazines Géo, Corto Maltese, Actuel, Cent idées, Vogue, l'Écho des savanes, etc.

He was a journalist and proofreader for Libération (1979–1984).

Works 1965: Cahier de poésies 1985: Afrique du Sud : « Blanc honoraire », Ramsay 1987: Cahiers de la Mort-Colibri, novel, Éditions du Seuil 1988: East Africa with Tim beddow 1992: Océanie, prix Ève Delacroix of the Académie française. 1995: La Guinée-Bissau aujourd'hui, 2nd ed. 1997: Le fleuve Powhatan, novel, Flammarion 1991: Djibouti with Patrick Frilet 2002: Une Enfance Outremer under the direction of Leilla Sebbar, Points Seuil 2001: Autour de Nicolas Bouvier, 2006: L'appel du Bronx with father Pierre Raphaël 2007: Maroc

Articles 2006: Chroniques in "French Morning" online magazine de New York 2005–2004: Articles for EchoPolyglot.com 2004: Guide de New York National Geographic Magazine de NYU 2004: Black Renaissance The Great Wall 2002: Special issue on New York by Geo 2002: Report in Somaliland with illustrations by the author

Television 1994: 52 minutes documentary, Sauvé des eaux, a hydroelectric dam in the Guyanese forest o fPetit Saut, prod. Gedeon