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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.
Nora Bossong
Bossong©Peter-Andreas Hassiepen
WRITER
FINALIST OF FRANZ HESSEL PRIZE 2013
Germany
Born in Bremen in 1982, Nora Bossong studied cultural sciences, philosophy, and comparative literature at the German Institute of Literature in Liepzig and Humboldt University in Berlin. She has received several literary prizes, including the Peter Huchel Prize in 2012, the Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize in 2007, and the city of Berlin’s artistic prize in the “literature” category in 2011. She has also been an author in residence at New York University (United States) and the University of Nanjing (People’s Republic of China). She has published Gegend (novel, FVA 2006), Reglose Jagd (poems, ZuKlampen 2007), Webers Protokoll (novel, FVA 2009), Sommer vor den Mauern (poems, Hanser 2011), and in 2012, Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (Hanser Verlag).
Learn more about Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung (Hanser Verlag, 2012)
A fortune is handed down through three generations: the first built it, the second maintained it, the third squandered it. And the fourth? At 27, Luise Tietjen inherits what she never wanted: Tietjen and Sons, with annual sales of 38 million and a clear downward trend. Luise has to save the business, which formerly supplied the imperial army with towels and upholds old values nobody cares about anymore. What’s more, she must bring her father home from wherever he’s hiding in New York. In this novel, Nora Bossong tells the story of the rise and fall of a family business.
