Biography
The novelist Maxim Shattam Critics is called French Stephen King. Like the American colleague, Maxim loves to scare readers and brings mystricon in detectives.Childhood and youth
The writer was born in February 1976 in the Paris suburb of Erble. As a child, he wanted to become an actor and did the first steps towards a dream - visited the artistic circle and starred in advertising.
A significant part of the early biography of Shattam (real name - Maxim Guy Silven Druo) was held in the American "city of Roses" Portland (Oregon). The writer is recognized that he is raised rather on American literature than in French, and the city and childhood is now often appeared in Maxim's works. So, in the final book of the "Trilogy of Evil" cycle, the "Black Widow" novel - the residents of Oregon die from the bite of spiders.
The writer has even more "American" pseudonym than shuttles, Williams. Under this name, the writer released the novel "Fifth Kingdom".
Before the work of the Shattam was published and earned readership, young Maxim tried many lessons - visited the cashier, and a janitor, and a guard. The most useful for writing career was the job by the seller in the bookstore. Maxim studied the conjuncture of the fiction market and tied acquaintance with representatives of publishers.
Personal life
Maxim is friendly with a colleague - French writer Bernarr Verber, as well as shutters operating at the junction of fantastic and detective genres. However, unlike a buddy, a convinced bachelor - the author of the "Trilogy of Evil" is happy in marriage.Maxim's wife - TV presenter Faustina Ballart. Spouses raise two children - Ebby's daughter, born in 2013, and Son Peter, who appeared in 2 years after sister.
The writer said in an interview with the RFI journalist Vladimir Bondarev during a visit to the St. Petersburg bookstand in 2013, although usually reluctance is reluctant to share the details of personal life. The novelist does not lead the page in "Instagram". To see the latest photos of Maxim and his family, fans have to look at Facebook and Twitter of the writer.
Books
In the literature, shuttles debuted with the novel of the "Soul of Evil", in the center of which is to investigate a series of killings of young women held by a police tandem and a student of the Faculty of Psychology. Having become a professional writer, Maxim learned to the Criminalist at the University of Saint-Denis.
The writer works in different genres. So, in thrillers written for the series "Cycle of man and truth", many elements of fiction, and the "Union of Three" - a book for adolescents (Young adult). The action of the detective "Predators" unfolds in 1944, and Roman "Levifron", which the author considers the top of his creativity, in the 1900th.
Shatters are recognized that the fascinating plot appreciates higher than the elegant language, and he calls himself a totalitarian writer, rigidly controlling heroes and a plot. The secret of Success Maxim considers short chapters, each of which ends with "mini-saspins".
Maxim Shattam now
In the fall of 2019, the Publishing House "AST" released the Roman Shattam "Devil's Patience". The book translated into Russian from the cycle about the ladies-operative Ludvilin Vanker talks about a series of terrorist attacks, followed by a mysterious devil-cloth.The work was published in the series "Kings of the French thriller", in which the Roman Maxim came out in the summer "and the will of yours" and the detective Arne Dalya "deserted lands". The publisher leads a quote from the French press -
"If other detectives allow readers only to look at the world of evil through a small window, then shuttles swing the door to hell."Bibliography
- 2002 - "Trilogy of evil. Soul evil "
- 2003 - "Trilogy of evil. In the dark"
- 2004 - "Trilogy of evil. Black Widow"
- 2006 - "The cycle of man and truth. Chaos Maze "
- 2007 - "The cycle of man and truth. Predators »
- 2008 - "Union of Three"
- 2010 - "Levigron"
- 2014 - "Devil's patience"
- 2018 - "Amber"