The Villa Gillet
Founded in 1987, the Villa Gillet welcomes in Lyon fiction and non-fiction writers, artists and scholars from over the world to ponder issues relevant to our ever shiflting world. The Villa Gillet makes the work of exciting contemporary thinkers accessible to the largest audience possible, by organizing events during the year, and during its festivals : the International Forum on the Novel — happening every year in May since 2007— co-organized with "Le Monde", Walls and Bridges, a ten-day series of events that happened from 2011 to 2013 and Mode d'emploi : un festival des idées — a festival of public debates — initiated in 2012.
Russell Banks
Russell Banks ©Nancie Battaglia
WRITER
USA
Russell Banks (United States), undeniably one of the major contemporary American writers, is a former President of the International Parliament of Writers, and a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters. His work, translated in twenty languages and published in France by Actes Sud, has received many international prizes. His latest novel is Lost Memory of Skin (Ecco, 2011). A Permanent Member of the Family, his latest short story collection, the first one in 15 years, was published in 2013 by Ecco.
