Cyrill Delvin Email & Phone Number

Cyrill Delvin, born 1963, studied philosophy and biology. He lives and works in the Swiss mountains. As a child, the stories of his grandfather who worked as an engineer for Brown, Boveri & Cie in Northern Africa and the Middle East fascinated him. His curiosity for the Arabic culture has stayed with him ever since. He has a keen interest in the developments in the Middle East. That's where his first two stories are based. »The Gaza Project« and »The Lost Legend of Afghanistan« essentially are speculative policy; suspense-packed and entertaining novels. In the third and fourth books, Delvin takes a thematic approach to climate change and digitalization. The novella »Swiss Memories of the Future« deals with the question of what will happen to Swiss society when the country runs out of money and water. The prospects may seem dystopian, but elsewhere in the world they are present and therefore real. Whether dystopian or utopian is not the focus of the most recently published detective story »Duster's Cat«. Instead, the question is whether artificial intelligence is susceptible to traumatic experiences and, if so, how these manifest themselves. The fact that cats play an important role in this is more due to the satirical nature of the detective story than any likelihood of the events described occurring.Delvin is currently working on an unconventional critique of modernity, idiosyncratic in form and content, and highly topical in every respect ...(Translated with DeepL.com, free version)