Bernard Werber life and biography

Bernard Werber is a French science fiction writer active since the 1990s.

Bernard Werber's Ants trilogy of made him one of France's most popular science fiction novelists in the 1990s. Werber began studying journalism in 1982 in Paris, where he discovered the work of sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick.

He worked as a journalist from 1983-90 for the science magazine Nouvel Observateur (New Observer), while writing fiction on the side. He published the novel Les Fourmis (in America, Empire of the Ants), a complex fantasy in which ants were the heroes and humans the pesty antagonists, in 1991. The novel became a cult hit across Europe, and Werber followed it with two other books in the same vein: Le Jour des Fourmis (Day of the Ants,1992) and La Révolution des Fourmis (Revolution of the Ants, 1995). His other books include L'Empire des Anges (Empire of the Angels, 2000) L'Arbre des possibles (The Tree of Possibles, 2002) and Nous les dieux (We Gods, 2004). He made a science-fiction parody film in 2006, Nos amis les Terriens (Our Earthmen Friends).

Les Fourmis trilogy

Les Fourmis, Prix des lecteurs de Science et Avenir, 1991 (lit. The Ants, translated into English as Empire of the Ants). This book sold more than two million copies and has been translated into more than 30 languages.
Le Jour des Fourmis, 1992 (lit. The Day of the Ants)
La Révolution des Fourmis, 1996 (lit. The Revolution of the Ants)

Les Thanatonautes trilogy

Les Thanatonautes, 1994 (lit. The Thanatonauts)
L'Empire des Anges, 2000 (lit. The Empire of the Angels)
Nous, les Dieux, 2004 (lit. Us, Gods)
Le Souffle des Dieux, 2005 (lit. The Breath of the Gods)
Le Mystère des Dieux 2007 (lit. The Mystery of the Gods)

Le Père De Nos Pères trilogy

Le père de nos pères, 1998 (lit. The Father of our Fathers)
L'ultime secret, 2001 (lit. The Ultimate Secret)
Le rire du Cyclope, 2010 (lit. The Laughter of the Cyclops)

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