Jean-Luc Barbanneau Author

Jean-Luc Barbanneau was born in 1949 in Algiers, of French, Italian and Spanish origin - a background typical of the minority European population of Algeria at the time. Part of his childhood coincided with the Algerian war of independence. The dramatic outcome of this conflict led to a first exile with his family to France, where he finished his schooling in the provincial town of Niort before attending university in Paris. In Paris he was involved in the evenements of May 1968. He then moved to the UK, acquiring British citizenship in 1976. After a few years teaching in Brighton, he began a long career in publishing in London and Oxford. He now lives on the east coast of Scotland, near Edinburgh.