Camille de Toledo was born in 1976, he studied political science and took his degree at the London School of Economics and at Sciences-Po Paris. After a period spent working in film and photography in New York, he started a magazine named Don Quichotte and began shooting documentaries on the anti-globalisation movement as well as short fictions for broadcasters ARTE and Canal Plus.  On the side, he also wrote a collection of short stories entitled Rêves ("Dreams") under the pseudonym Oscar Philipsen for Radio Nova's literature programme. His essay "Goodbye tristesse" (2002), published in English in 2006, was quoted by philosopher Peter Sloterdijk and Vaclav Havel. It was hailed as a major success. Since then, Camille de Toledo has worked on other film projects, and published two novels L'inversion de Hieronymus Bosch and Vies et mort d'un terroriste américain, two fiction work part of his Artificial tetralogie. In 2008, with the support of Peter Sloterdijk, Hélène Cixous, Maren Sell, and many contemporary writters, he launched the SEA, Society of european authors to foster litterary and intellectual exchanges between european languages.