{{Short description|Swiss author (born 1945)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}}{{Infobox person | name = Daniel Odier | image = Daniel Odier.JPG | alt = | caption = | birth_name = Daniel Robert Odier | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|05|17|df=yes}} | birth_place = Geneva, Switzerland | death_date = | death_place = | other_names = Delacorta | occupation = {{hlist|Author|screenwriter|poet|essayist}} | spouse = Nell Gotkovsky (died 1998) | children = | years_active = | notable_works = ''Diva''<br>''Luna''<br>''The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs'' }} '''Daniel Robert Odier''' (born 1945), also known by the pen name '''Delacorta''', is a Swiss author, teacher, and practitoner of Kashmir Shaivism and Chan Buddhism. He is the author of ''Tantric Quest'' (1997), ''The Doors of Joy'' (2014), and ''Yoga Spandakarika'' (2005).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Tantric Quest |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tantric-Quest/Daniel-Odier/9780892816200 |access-date=2025-08-24 |website=Simon & Schuster}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Tremblay |first=G. |date=Fall 2005 |title=Yoga Spandakarika |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f6h&AN=18047486&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |access-date=2025-08-24 |work=Ascent Magazine |via=EBSCOhost}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=December 9, 2013 |title=The Doors of Joy: 19 Meditations for Authentic Living |url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=lkh&AN=92980892&lang=en-gb&site=eds-live&scope=site |access-date=2025-08-24 |work=Publishers Weekly |via=EBSCOhost}}</ref>
In English, he is best known for his series of six crime novels featuring Alba, a vivacious adolescent kleptomaniac, and Gorodish, the middle-aged pianist and photographer with a criminal past who adores her. The second in the series, ''Diva,'' was adapted to film by Jean-Jacques Beineix in 1981 and became an international success.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Ebert |first=Roger |date=10 January 2008 |title=An entanglement of tapes, mopeds, arias, zen masters and subways |url=https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/diva-2008 |access-date=2025-08-24 |work=RogerEbert.com}}</ref>
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==External links== *[http://www.danielodier.com/ Daniel Odier's Official Webpage] *{{IMDb name|id=0644073}} *{{Helveticat}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Odier, Daniel}} Category:Swiss male novelists Category:Living people Category:1945 births Category:20th-century Swiss novelists Category:21st-century Swiss novelists Category:20th-century Swiss male writers Category:21st-century Swiss male writers