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.
Loïc Merle
Loïc Merle ©Melania Avanzato
WRITER
France
Loïc Merle was born in 1978. After L’Esprit de l’ivresse (Actes Sud, 2013), he publishes his second novel, Seul, Invaincu, where he strives to grasp the individual in its most intimate dimension and where he explores that most constant human bond: friendship. Written like the harrowing song of an interior struggle, Seul, Invaincu lays out the stakes of commitment, the choices that come with age, and the doubts that can rattle a man who is beset by the reality of existence and the illness of his best friend.
> Seul, Invaincu (Actes Sud, 2015)
