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.
Bernard Bolze
FOUNDER OF THE OBSERVATOIRE INTERNATIONAL DES PRISONS
France
Biography
Bernard Bolze founded the Observatoire international des prisons [International Prison Observatory] in 1990. The issue of imprisonment runs throughout his career as an activist. Since 2008 he has worked as an inspector, now part time, with Jean-Marie Delarue, general inspector of detention sites. He was also behind last September’s “Passages” event at the Saint-Paul de Lyon prison, which was closed in 2009, to commemorate the requalification of the site as a university campus. He recently published Cantine, la privatisation expliquée aux détenus (Golias).
