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 Guetta
JOURNALIST
France
Biography
Bernard Guetta is a columnist writing on international politics for the radio station France Inter and the newspapers Libération and la Repubblica. In 2005, he actively campaigned for a “yes” vote on the referendum to adopt the European constitutional treaty, and his morning “columns” on France Inter often promote greater European integration.
Guetta received the Albert Londres prize in 1981 and the Grand Prix de la Presse Internationale Radio in 2011 for his column “Géopolitique,” which is broadcast on France Inter. He recently published L’An I des révolutions arabes (Belin, 2012).
