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.
Raphaëlle Rérolle
JOURNALIST
France
Raphaëlle Rérolle is a journalist for Le Monde. She first wrote for the society page, then for Le Monde des Livres, where she was in charge of foreign literature for ten years before becoming a reporter for Le Monde 2, then deputy head of Le Monde des Livres and head of French literature. She is currently a journalist for Le Monde’s weekend insert “Culture et idées”. Since their creation in 2007, she has been Le Monde’s director of the Assises Internationales du Roman.