Gregoire Courtois lives and works in Burgundy, where he runs the independent bookstore Obliques, which he bought in 2011. A novelist and playwright, he has published three novels with Le Quartanier: Revolution (2011), Surequipee (2015), and Les lois du ciel (2016). In 2013 he founded Caracteres, an international book festival in Auxerre, which he continues to run.