Olivier Paquet is a French

French people

The French are a nation that share a common French culture and speak the French language as a mother tongue. Historically, the French population are descended from peoples of Celtic, Latin and Germanic origin, and are today a mixture of several ethnic groups...

 political scientist

Political science

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 and science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 author

Author

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Paquet graduated from the Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble

Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble

The Grenoble Institute of Political Studies , also known as Sciences Po Grenoble, is a political science grande école located in the campus of the University of Grenoble in Saint-Martin-d'Hères, France...

 in 1994 and went on to complete his DEA in 1995. He completed a doctorate in political science at the institution in 2002. As an author, he won the Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire

Grand Prix de l'Imaginaire is a French award for speculative fiction. It originally had the word "science fiction" in the name, but this has since been dropped.-French novel:* 1974 : Michel Jeury, Le Temps incertain...

award in 2002 for his short fiction Synesthésie, which was published in Galaxies magazine in 2000. He is also a columnist for the France Culture

France Culture

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 radio station and an anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 and manga

Manga

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critic.

External links

• Olivier Paquet official website