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.
Olivier Rolin
Olivier Rolin ©Hermance Triay
WRITER
France
Olivier Rolin has authored some twenty novels translated in many countries. He received notably the France Culture Prize for Tigre en papier (Seuil, 2002). He has also written travel narratives and various journalistic reports, in particular in South America. His latest novel, Le Météorologue, centers on the tragic fate of Alexei Feodossevitch, a talented Russian scientist who will nonetheless not achieve posterity. Through a crisp and subtle style, Olivier Rolin strives to trace back the story of a man who dreamed to harness the energy from the wind and sun, who believed he was helping “build socialism,” but who, arrested and deported for being a “saboteur,” ended up an ordinary victim, among millions of others, of Stalinist terror.
> Le Météorologue (Seuil, Prix du Style 2014)
