Background
Ferrier was born in Strasbourg.
essayist novelist university professor
Ferrier was born in Strasbourg.
After a nomadic childhood (Africa and Indian Ocean), he gained entrance to the highly selective École Normale Supérieure, at the age of 18, where he passed the agrégation in literature (highest teaching diploma in France) and graduated from the University of Paris.
He comes from a French family and also from Mauritian Creole people and Réunion Creole people, with Indian, French, Malagasy and British origins. He is currently Professor at Chuo University, Tokyo, Japan, and director of the Research Group Figures de l"Etranger (In the face of alterity: The image of the Other in arts and society).