Holiday Facilitators: Stephen Clarke

Stephen Clarke has turned (or rather twisted) his life in France into six bestselling novels (A Year in the Merde, Merde Actually, Dial M for Merde, etc), as well as writing history books such as 1000 Years of Annoying the French, travel and opinion articles for UK and foreign newspapers, magazines and websites, and has a regular column in France magazine about being a Parisian.

He has also adapted his novel The Merde Factor for the stage, written and performed a words-and-music show about Anglo-French history, composed English song lyrics for a French singer, and written and directed a one-woman show for an American stand-up comedienne that was performed in Paris and New York.

Stephen tutored creative writing courses at Atsitsa in 2015 and 2019, and has given talks at different writers' groups in Paris, as well as mentoring a creative writing student at the University of London.