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.
Daniel Sibony
© Emmanuel Robert
WRITER / PSYCHOANALYST
France
Daniel Sibony was born into a Jewish family in Marrakech and emigrated to Paris when he was 13. His mother tongue is Arabic, but his cultural language is biblical Hebrew. A philosopher and psychoanalyst, Sibony is the author of numerous books on the three monotheistic religions and the conflict in the Middle East, including Proche-Orient, psychanalyse d’un conflit (Seuil, 2003), Lectures bibliques (Odile Jacob, 2006), De l’identité à l’existence (Odile Jacob, 2010) and, most recently, Islam, phobie, culpabilité (Odile Jacob, 2013).
