# Daniel Odier

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{{Short description|Swiss author (born 1945)}}
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| name          = Daniel Odier
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| birth_name    = Daniel Robert Odier
| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1945|05|17|df=yes}}
| birth_place   = [Geneva](/source/Geneva), Switzerland
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| other_names   = Delacorta
| occupation    = {{hlist|Author|screenwriter|poet|essayist}}
| spouse        = Nell Gotkovsky (died 1998)
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| notable_works = ''[Diva](/source/Diva_(Odier_novel))''<br>''[Luna](/source/Luna_(Odier_novel))''<br>''[The Job: Interviews with William S. Burroughs](/source/The_Job%3A_Interviews_with_William_S._Burroughs)''
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'''Daniel Robert Odier''' (born 1945), also known by the [pen name](/source/pen_name) '''Delacorta''', is a Swiss author, teacher, and practitoner of [Kashmir Shaivism](/source/Kashmir_Shaivism) and [Chan Buddhism](/source/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](/source/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](/source/Publishers_Weekly) |via=[EBSCOhost](/source/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](/source/Diva_(Odier_novel)),'' was adapted to [film](/source/Diva_(1981_film)) by [Jean-Jacques Beineix](/source/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>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.danielodier.com/ Daniel Odier's Official Webpage]
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Category:Swiss male novelists
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Category:20th-century Swiss novelists
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Category:20th-century Swiss male writers
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