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.
Robert Maggiori
JOURNALIST / PHILOSOPHER
France
BiographY
Robert Maggiori is a French philosopher, editor, translator and journalist of Italian origin. He has taught philosophy at the lycée François-Couperin de Fontainebleau since 1985.
A journalist at Libération, he has published hundreds of articles of literary and philosophical criticism. He contributes to numerous reviews (La Pensée, Alfabeta, Le Magazine littéraire, Critique, Les Temps modernes, etc.), translates humanities books from the Italian, was a member of the editorial committee of Critique, and co-editor of the Itinéraires collection published by Flammarion, then the Philosophie collection published by Bordas.
