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Baptiste Shizeh

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Baptiste Shizeh

Baptiste Shizeh, known as Shizeh, is a French author, writer and creator, born on 21 May 2005 in Limoges. Through his projects, he builds a personal universe where literature, reflection and creation meet.

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Baptiste Shizeh

My work revolves around writing in its many forms: books, a podcast, videos, shorter pieces published right here. The medium changes, the intention stays the same: sharing ideas, stories and experiences that invite curiosity and reflection.

I believe in things made with heart and with time. In authenticity over posture. In patient work over noise. This site is built the way I try to write: simply, honestly, leaving room for silence.

If I had to sum up what I hope to pass on: the joy of learning, the desire to grow, and the slightly old-fashioned pleasure of taking time to think.

What guides me

Authenticity
Saying things as they are, writing the way I think.
Respect
For readers, for the time they give me, for ideas unlike my own.
Sharing
What I learn is not mine; it only makes sense in circulation.
Curiosity
The engine of everything: read, listen, observe, repeat.
Work
Nothing here happened fast. And that is exactly right.
Mutual help
Moving forward together always beats arriving alone.

Books on my table

Two authors have accompanied me for a long time: Franz Kafka, for his restless lucidity and absolute honesty in the face of the absurd; Osamu Dazai, for his unguarded fragility and his way of telling his own story without ever cheating. What they share, authenticity even when it costs, is probably what I look for in my own writing.

Franz Kafka · Osamu Dazai