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.
Sandrine Treiner
Sandrine Treiner ©Christophe Abramowitz -Radio France
HISTORIAN
France
Sandrine Treiner, a historian by training, is the Vice Director of France Culture. L’Idée d’une tombe sans nom is her first novel. She narrates the life of Manya Schwartzman, a young revolutionary who left her native Bessarabia to go build socialism in the Soviet Union. There, she will disappear, having fallen victim to the Stalinist purges. In this story of great literary power, Sandrine Treiner investigates to wrest her heroine from the anonymity of mass graves. This tale has us traveling into lost territories and ideas, at the heart of sunny steppes along the Black Sea, but it is first and foremost a reparation. With a keen and nuanced tone, Sandrine Treiner has us engaging with a libertarian woman whose fate was shattered.
> L’Idée d’une tombe sans nom (Grasset, 2013)
