15 Facts About Sylvain Tesson

Sylvain Tesson was born on 26 April 1972 and is a French writer and traveller born in Paris.

Sylvain Tesson has engaged in a number of unusual travels and expeditions which are the basis for his books.

Sylvain Tesson is the son of Marie-Claude Tesson and the journalist Philippe Tesson who founded the French newspaper Le Quotidien de Paris.

Sylvain Tesson's sisters are the actress Stephanie Tesson and the art journalist Daphne Tesson.

Sylvain Tesson is a geographer by background and holds a degree in geopolitics.

Sylvain Tesson wrote about the trip in 1996, in the book On a roule sur la terre, for which he received the youth IGN prize.

Sylvain Tesson wrote a book with photographer Thomas Goisque based on this experience, Sous l'etoile de la liberte.

Sylvain Tesson recounted his time in Siberia in a book The Consolations of the Forest: Alone in a Cabin on the Siberian Taiga.

Sylvain Tesson released a film titled Alone, 180 days on Lake Baikal, directed by Tesson and Florence Tran, and the book was adapted into the drama film In the Forests of Siberia, directed by Safy Nebbou and starring Raphael Personnaz.

Between 2011 and 2018 Sylvain Tesson was the president of an NGO, La Guilde Europeenne du Raid.

Sylvain Tesson survived and woke up, but was left paralysed on the right half of his face.

Sylvain Tesson has written two installments of the radio programme and book series Un ete avec.

Sylvain Tesson wrote Un ete avec Homere about Homer in 2017 and Un ete avec Rimbaud about Arthur Rimbaud in 2020.

Stereotypes and Cliches: Critics like Bruce Begout accuse Sylvain Tesson of relying on outdated and picturesque literary stereotypes, often found in travel literature.

Political Ties: Sylvain Tesson is associated with far-right political circles, such as his connections to figures of the Nouvelle Droite and involvement with Radio Courtoisie, a far-right radio station.