RICHARD F. TABBI : BIOGRAPHY

RICHARD F. TABBI was born in 1967 in the south of France, from a Sicilian father and a French mother.
After a master’s degree in medieval theology he dedicated himself to Francis from Assisi's sanctity he successively was a military man, a teacher, a documentalist, an editor, a journalist, a marketing professionnal, a bricklayer, a painter, a medical secretary...
At the age of thirty he decided to be a writer.
His first novel, ZOMBIE PLANETE was published in 2003, by Mango editions. The first part of a trilogy dedicated to insanity through the vision of an author who sinks into manic depression, ZOMBIE PLANETE is also a way to explore some of the post-war myths : the road, the pop-rock music, the drugs addictions... Richard F. Tabbi also took part in « Sexe More Sexe » with Eliette Abécassis, Frédéric Beigbeder and many others, and collaborate with the Bulletin des Amis de Michel Houellebecq and the Bordel review writing short stories and essays. He also wrote scenarii with the author-actor Ludovic Lavaissière in Le Havre, France.
As a French author, he was strangely influenced by the American litterature. In the beginning he discovered with passion Louis-Ferdinand Céline and Blaise Cendrars, and is still crazy about these two giants. But he found his vocation while crossing the Atlantic Ocean and meeting John Fante, Charles Bukowski, Jack Kerouac, Henry Miller and some others, thanks to Philippe Djian. Ever since this moment he has been reading American litterature exclusively, with the exception of two great French authors of his generation : Maurice G. Dantec and Michel Houellebecq of course.
He now lives in the south of France.