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.
Christine Montalbetti
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WRITER
FINALIST OF FRANZ HESSEL PRICE 2013
France
Christine Montalbetti was born in Le Havre in 1965 and lives in Paris. The author of several books (novels, short stories, essays), she is an associate professor of French literature at the University of Paris-VIII and writes for the theater. In particular, she is the author of Le cas Jekyll, which was first performed in Amiens in spring 2009 and reprised at the Théâtre national de Chaillot, in a version staged by Denis Podalydès. Her last novel Love Hotel (P.O.L, 2013) was just published.
