Christian Salmon is a member of the Center for Research in the Arts and Language. The director of the International Parliament of Writers from 1993 to 2005, he is a founder of the International Network of Cities of Asylum and the journal Autodafe. He has contributed to several newspapers, including Le Monde, which published his weekly column throughout 2008. He is the author of numerous nonfiction works, including Storytelling, which has been translated into seven languages. He lives in France.