Jérémie Brugidou was born in 1988 and lives in Brussels. Ici, la Béringie is his first novel. He is a para-disciplinary artist-researcher, director and writer. He has directed films (BX46 in 2014 and Le chant de la nuit in 2017). A doctor in film studies, his research focuses on the way in which fiction and image can be used to imagine new anthropological perspectives. He practices thuy phap, a Vietnamese martial art.