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.
Ivan Jablonka
HISTORIAN AND EDITOR
France
Ivan Jablonka (France), historian and editor, is a professor at the University Paris 13. His field of expertise is chilhood. He is the editor-in-chief for the website laviedesidees.fr and co-runs the "République des Idées" collection for the Seuil press.
> Histoire des grands-parents que je n’ai pas eus. Une enquête (Seuil 2012)
> Les Vérités inavouables de Jean Genet, (Seuil, 2004 2nd ed. 2014)