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.
Marie Holzman
Marie Holzman - DR
SINOLOGIST
France
A sinologist, Marie Holzman is a specialist of the Chinese dissidence. She studied in China and was in Beijing during the first Beijing Spring in 1978. Since then she has fought along the dissidents for the fall of the communist dictatorship. She created, with Galia Ackerman and Jean-François Bouthors the book collection « Les moutons noirs » that publishes political dissidents from all over the world. She is a member of the board of Human Rights in China.
