One of my dreams has come true – I once dreamed of designing beautiful dresses and creating haute couture designs. And now, my book “The Age of Rain” (translated into …
Author: Olga de Benoist
→Olga de Benoist (@OlgadeBenoist) is a Paris-based author, photographer & blogger. She is the author of the book "The Age of Rain" ("Время дождя" (RU) or "O Choro da Chuva" (BR)), a collection of short stories about Paris, its music, dreamers, lovers & the rain. She also works on the art project "People & The City".
The artist Nathalie Kho shared some insights and secrets on her work on the illustrations for the book The Devil of Père Lachaise by Olga de Benoist
Diary notes of a trip of writers from the Paris-based literary club The White Phoenix to the SlovoNovo 2021 forum, held in Budva (Montenegro) from 24 to 30 September 2021. …
Sveta Velikanova wrote such a review for my book ‘The Age of Rain’ that it is in itself like a separate work about Paris, dreams and love. Very glad we …
I’ve decided to answer Proust’s tricky (and curious) questionnaire.
The interview was conducted and recorded on 16 February 2020 by the Parisian artist Nathalie Kho. My first impression of you is fire, flame and flight. And how would you …
Interview for the AveFrance project. First published on April 15, 2020 here. Olga de Benoist is a writer, photographer and dreamer. She runs the White Phoenix Tales literary club in …
Innsaga: “Have you ever tried to describe the colour of a kaleidoscope mosaic picture? That’s about as close as I can get to describing our Thursday night premiere heroine. A …
I am so excited to annonce that my book O Choro da Chuva (in Russian "Время дождя") which was translated to Portuguese and published in Brazil in 2019, will be presented by the Brazilian publishing house Pergunta Fixar at the famous festival SXSW in Austin, Texas-USA.
Interview with Ridero The Frankfurt Book Fair is one of the world industry’s major events. Ridero authors Anastasia Olshevskaya, Olga de Benoist and Anna Visloukh decided to attend it themselves …
Hello Nour! Thank you for participating in my project “People and the City”. Let’s start from the very beginning. Can you please describe yourself just in a few words? Hi …
The book "O Choro da Chuva" has been published in Portuguese in the Brazilian publishing house Pergunta Fixar. Listen to the music of the city, and get acquainted with its mythical characters such as Rain man, Catcher of Music, A Magic Bird, a Dancing Girl, Europe & Asia, modern Tessey and Ariadna. Love and death, a star road, metro mazes, dreams and reality, the shining darkness of night, eroticism and innocence, wealth and poverty, tears and happiness, Christmas and spring - and all this with a light haze of rain.
Discover the magic photography by the French-Algerian Photographer Walid Berrazeg. Africa, Asia & Europe. Marocco, Japan, Tanzania, Algiers and Russia. Check out the reportage.
Olga de Benoist set herself a task to portray "careless and shining Paris", the Paris, seen through the eyes of young hippies and hipsters, the darlings of fortune. Her characters love life, they know how to enjoy it and still they are obsessed with an existential pathos. Every now and then they say, "Who are we? Why do we live?" (Konstantin Grishine's literary review of the book The Age of Rain)