Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers, I'm Georgina Godwin.
My guest today is an award-winning French writer who's lived several lives.
As an aid worker in Guyana and the former Yugoslavia, then as a policeman for 18 years,
rising to the rank of captain in the tough Paris suburb of Saint-Saint-Denis.
As well as his acclaimed crime novels, which were sold millions of copies worldwide,
he's also a screenwriter and co-creator of the French TV series The Invisibles.
His latest novel is a first for him, an historical thriller,
The Winter Warriors, set in Finland at the outbreak of World War II.
During on the real-life figures and battles of the Finnish-Soviet Winter War,
it's a heart-pounding epic from one of Europe's most acclaimed crime writers.
Olivier Norric, welcome to Meet the Writers.
Thank you very much.
It's lovely to have you here.
I want to just start off with a little bit about your family and your childhood,
because your father ran French radio.
Yeah, he did.
I will answer in French, but you will have to endure my French accent, so sorry in advance.
So yeah, my father was the head of a very big French radio.
Yes, he was.
And how did that influence your childhood?