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Christian Bobin lived near his birthplace, Le Creusot, in Saône-et-Loire, in a house in the heart of the forest, where he devoted himself entirely to writing. He is the author of some twenty books, the titles of which fit together like fragments of a single puzzle. His first texts, characterised by their brevity and somewhere between essay and poetry, date from the 1980s. In 1992, he achieved great success with a book dedicated to Saint Francis of Assisi: Le Très-Bas (The Very Lowly). He received the Prix des Deux Magots by Gallimard and the 1993 Grand Prix Catholique de Litterature. In 2020, he was awarded the Prince Pierre Foundation Literary Prize for his life’s work.

Through the works of the great French poet and writer Christian Bobin, Javier Santiso will evoke, beyond their aesthetic and sensitive quality, a spiritual dimension rarely reached in contemporary literature.