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.
Josyane Savigneau
JOURNALIST
France
BiographY
Josyane Savigneau began working at Le Monde in 1977 and since 1983 has worked at Le Monde des Livres, which she managed from 1991 to 2005. She was also editor-in-chief of the culture department from 1995 to 2002. She is now responsible of the monthly magazine. She is the author of two biographies: Marguerite Yourcenar, l’invention d’une vie (Gallimard, 1990) and Carson McCullers, un coeur de jeune fille (Stock, 1995) and of an autobiographical story, Point de côté (Stock, 2008).