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.
David Rieff
JOURNALIST
United States
Biography
David Rieff, a political analyst and international correspondent, was born in Boston in 1952 and currently lives in New York. In the 1990s, he covered the conflicts in the Balkans for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The New Republic. After making the case for intervention by the major powers, he turned his attention to the rise in this type of operation. His latest book, At the Point of a Gun (Simon & Schuster), tells the story of this about-face. Some of his books have been translated into French, namely L’Humanitaire en crise (Le Serpent à Plumes, 2003) and Mort d’une inconsolée (Climats, 2008), in which he describes the battle of his mother, Susan Sontag, with illness.
