Sofia Martin
About me
Journalist
Sofia Martin worked as a journalist for fifteen years for mainstream magazines. She lived in the United States for ten years, where she produced reports for the French press. A lover of Ireland, she now divides her time between France and the Emerald Isle.
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Passionate about mysteries and legends since childhood, I turned my curiosity into a real professional driving force. I began my career as a journalist by walking the dark corridors of haunted castles in Scotland. I accompany "ghost hunters" during their investigations, entering old homes to try to determine if they harbor invisible presences. Always in search of mysterious stories, I continue my adventure in Transylvania, in the footsteps of the mythical Count Dracula.
Based in the United States, I am widening my scope of action to include social investigations. Constantly in the field, I immerse myself in the heart of teenage gangs in Los Angeles, exploring these spirals of violence that shatter so many young lives. I cross the gates of high security prisons where minors are serving long sentences, and go to meet a 13-year-old condemned to death. In the American states of the South, I investigate the children of the Ku Klux Klan, enrolled from a very young age in the ideology of the movement. In Arizona, I share the daily life of the Hopi and attend the Indian rites which mark the passage of adolescents towards adulthood. In Pennsylvania, I discovered the life of the Amish, still moving in step with horses, far from the modern world.
My reports were all published in the French press.
In France, I also carry out social investigations: crimes of passion, organ trafficking, domestic violence, incest, medical errors, addiction, adolescent suicide. I collect numerous testimonies and the opinions of psychiatrists and psychoanalysts to analyze them, which also enriches my understanding of psychology.
My numerous travels have also allowed me to produce tourism reports: unusual New York; Louisiana, from New Orleans to the plantations of Gone with the Wind; Jerusalem, on the Christian route; Provence, in the footsteps of Pagnol.
It's the richness of all these experiences that led me to write fiction.