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.
An Intimate Conversation with Richard Ford
© Sandrine Roudeix, Opale
58 rue Pierre Dupont
Lyon 1er
An event presented as part of Festival des Écrivains du Monde 2013 curated by University of Columbia in the City of New York and la Bibliothèque nationale de France.
Celebrating the French release of his new book, Canada, Richard Ford will be in conversation with Josyane Savigneau, writer and journalist with Le Monde.
Canada explores the loneliness of American life from the perspective of a fifteen-year-old boy and the brutal impact of parental foolishness on his life. Richard Ford’s novel, Independence Day, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN Faulkner Award for Fiction, the only book to do so. His books investigate the intimacy and complexities of daily life. Please join us for an inspired evening.
This event is in partnership with Ouvrir l’Œil bookshop.
>5 € / free for students, high school students, job seekers and Les Amis de la Villa Gillet (on presentation of documents). Payment is by check or cash.
Reservations are closed for this event. If you wish, you can go to Les Chartreux from 6.30pm to get last-minute tickets.
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