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.
Jean-Noël Orengo
Jean-Noël Orengo ©JF Paga- Grasset
WRITER
France
Jean-Noël Orengo cofounded the online literary magazine D-Fiction. He is the author of many critical and creative texts, as well as the co-author of the Dictionnaire La Poste des Métiers et des Fictions (with Caroline Hoctan, Éditions D-Fiction, 2013). La Fleur du capital, his first novel, is a baroque and polyphonic work structured like a vast stage where five voices are interwoven, leading us to Pattaya, in Thailand, the world capital of prostitution. From an obsessed architect to a ladyboy and a fetishistic author, this book plunges us into the meanders of human desire. Through powerfully creative language, sharp and hypnotic, Jean-Noël Orengo delves into the multiple strata of these tangled fates.
> La Fleur du capital (Grasset, 2015)
