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.
Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam
Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam ©Hélène Bamberger-POL
WRITER
France
Emmanuelle Bayamack-Tam lives and currently teaches in the Paris area. She is a founding member of the multidisciplinary association Autres et pareils, and has authored ten novels with the P.O.L press. Among the portraits of three women drawn in Je viens (2015), there is one character named Charonne. Black, curvaceous, abandoned twice, she is presented as a missionary figure in this comical novel, tackling head on the issues of ordinary racism, parental negligence, or senile depression.
