Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Maylis De Kerangal
© Catherine Hélie / Gallimard
AUTHOR
France
Born in 1967, Maylis de Kerangal was the editor for Éditions du Baron perché and worked for a long time with Pierre Marchand at the Guides Gallimard then in the children’s literature section. She is the author of Je marche sous un ciel de traîne (2000) and La Vie voyageuse (2003), as well as Ni fleurs ni couronnes (2006), a collection that received a lot of attention. One of the short stories in the collection was adapted for the screen (Eaux troubles, a short film by Charlotte Erlih, Why Not Productions, 2008, 20 min). Her novel Corniche Kennedy (Verticles, 2008) was unanimously praised by the press and the public and was selected for numerous prizes (Médicis, Femina, Wepler, France Culture/Télérama, Prix Murat). In 2010, she received the Médicis and Franz Hessel prizes for Naissance d’un pont roman. In her most recent novel, Réparer les vivants (Verticales, 2014), she once again traces the connections between voices, experience and sensitivities. In twenty-four hours—the time it takes to do a heart transplant—she explores the public and private around the heart, at the crossroads of love and pain.
