Bernard Werber, popular for his Les Fourmis (The Ants) trilogy, will meet readers from March 16 to 22 in Hà Nội, Huế, Đà Nẵng and HCM City.

The Ants trilogy made Werber one of France's most popular science fiction writers in the 1990s. The author began studying journalism in 1982 in Paris.

In 1991 he published the novel Les Fourmis (Empire of the Ants), a complex fantasy novel in which ants were the heroes and humans the pesty antagonists. The novel became a cult hit across Europe, and Werber followed it with two other books in the same vein: Le Jour des Fourmis (Day of the Ants,1992) and La Révolution des Fourmis (Revolution of the Ants, 1995).

Most of Werber's subsequent work appears in series, often with linked characters. The trilogy was published in some 30 languages with 23 million copies sold worldwide. It won the Sciences et Avenir magazine's Readers' Choice award and the Grand Prix award from Elle's readers.

His most recent book Le temps des chimères was published last October.

In Hà Nội, the author will meet readers on March 16 at 3pm at the National Library and at French Alexandre Yersin School on March 18.

The next meetings will be held at the French Institute's branch in Huế on March 19 and at Đà Nẵng Foreign Languages College on March 20.

In HCM City, the author will talk at the Institute of Cultural Exchange with France IDECAF on March 21 and at French Marguerite Duras School on March 22. VNS