Christian Jacq

Born in Paris in 1947, Christian Jacq inadvertently stumbled on his destiny at the age of thirteen, while reading a work of three volumes, The History of Civilisation in Ancient Egypt by Jacques Pirenne. He was already penning poems, when he embarked on novel writing, he was to complete eight in five years, as well as an opera libretto! At seventeen, he got married before finishing school and together with his young wife, spent his honeymoon in pursuit of his dream: first stop, ancient Memphis; first encounter, a giant reclining figure of the great Ramesses II … From this moment on the dye was cast.