Guest of "Icons" by Michel Denisot, the successful writer Joël Dicker returned to the importance of his former editor, Bernard de Fallois, on his career.
At the microphone of Europe 1, he explains that his success is "above all" his.
INTERVIEW
A mentor, a friend, almost a family member.
Bernard de Fallois had a very important role in the life of Joël Dicker.
Proof of this is in his latest book,
The Enigma of the room 622
, he is omnipresent.
Guest of "Icons" Saturday on Europe 1, the successful writer looks back on the role that his former editor, who died on January 2, 2018 at the age of 91, had in his career.
“My success is a bit mine, but it's mostly his,” he explains.
The first to "consider myself" as a writer
When I met him, I was a very upset writer because I had written books that nobody wanted to read, that didn't exist as a novel.
It was paper at home ... "remembers Joël Dicker. A complex situation for the writer who points out on our antenna his difficulty to consider himself as such without his audience, almost non-existent at the time, not does too. "And Bernard de Fallois was the first to tell me, to consider me as a novelist."
More than a mentor, Bernard de Fallois was "the one who allowed the emergence" of Joël Dicker and offered him the possibility "to affirm and to be what [he] is inside: a writer".
"Bernard de Fallois was an extremely important man because he gave me this desire to live, to be who I am."
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A success largely due to Bernard de Fallois
Moreover, Joël Dicker believes that he does not owe his success solely to his talent.
"It's obviously a bit mine, but it's mostly his. It's a success he believed in before everyone else, including me."
Confident in the future of his foal, Bernard de Fallois even lobbies so that the talent of Joël Dicker is recognized at its fair value.
"He built this success because he believed in it", confirms the writer who was "taken in the wake".