Lolness Tobias, Timothy of Fombelle

Author: At 17, Timothy Fombelle founded a theater company for which he wrote and directed.

The Lighthouse, founded with actor Clement Sibony and awarded the Prix Blower  2002 , reveals him as a playwright. It then explores an intimate theater, often centered on loss, frailty ("I always dance" 2003) but is not afraid to confront the comedy ("Pink Cats" 2008). This is one of the most prestigious contemporary French writers.

He also turns to the novel with Tobias Lolness, Gallimard Jeunesse, which meets a worldwide success. The novel was translated into 26 languages. He received a score of French and international prices including the price English Marsh Award, the Andersen Italian and French devoted most prices to children's literature. The film adaptation rights were acquired by Amber Music (UK, U.S.). Tobias Lolness the adventures of Tobias and his family - creatures of a millimeter and a half - living in a world tree. Besides the literary structure of the novel, brilliant, breathless, the success of the work owes much to the wealth of history and the fineness of the analogy between this world tree, sick human follies and real-world problems . After a more intimate drama, the novel reflects the magnitude and breath of writing that is renewed.

With Celeste, my planet, released in 2007 in the journal "I Bookish" before being published by Gallimard Jeunesse, in the collection Folio Junior, he takes up the theme of the living planet, with perhaps a little less ultimate line.

T he first volume of a new novel, Vango, appeared in March 2010 by Gallimard.This saga casts a young hero, Vango, in the whirlwind of the 30s. The second volume is announced in 2011.

The story "Toby Lolness measured one millimeter and a half, which was not tall for his age. "

Thus begins the story of the adventures of the young Tobias, who belongs to the people of the great oak. This nation knows no other world than that of the tree, digging his houses in the branches, tracing their paths in the furrows of the bark, making work weevils, raising their larvae to feed. Toby's father, learned great and wise, refused to deliver the secret of a revolutionary invention that turns the sap of the tree into kinetic energy. He knows that some would use to the detriment of the tree. Furious, the Grand Council condemned Lolness family into exile in the lower branches, and dark wilderness, near the border of Peeled. Here, however, Tobias and lives happily met Elisha who becomes his friend. But Lolness are retried and this time sentenced to death. Only Toby manages to escape. Hiding in the hollow bark, common among the branches, Tobias leaking, hunted by his own ...