Didier Voyenne
After graduating from ESSEC and CNAM, where he has since taught in parallel, Didier Voyenne led an intense professional life in various industrial and service companies, in the accounting and financial fields. He has also co-written technical works on this subject. For more than twenty years, he played competitive chess. However, theater, cinema and literature are his personal interests, and writing is his deep desire. He has written four novels and two plays.
He won the 2020 AlterPublishing Prize for The Palindrome .
Didier Voyenne - The House of Trade Winds
"Aristide once told me that life is a single-shot rifle without knowing what the right target is and that the bullet fired when we are born follows the line that the sights have traced to stick where it should go; and that, even if we hit the bullseye, we have not necessarily won. But, after leaving me first and as usual in an abyss of perplexity into which he plunges me each time he delivers such a sentence, he added, with his usual big laugh, that, of course, if the trajectory of the bullet is inflexible, the target can move – not easy to follow, right? –. He was right: Alizé was the new target of my life."
Will Reunion, a land of tolerance and balance, be the land of redemption and rebirth for the protagonists of this story? Because if destiny is the lure of those who expect nothing from their lives, destiny is for others what they make of theirs? Because only the latter can enter the house of the Alizés...