Incroci di civiltà

Festival Internazionale
di Letteratura a Venezia
10 14 aprile 2024

Maylis de Kerangal France

Saturday 13th April - 6.30 pm

Auditorium Santa Margherita - Emanuele Severino

Maylis de Kerangal

Marco Aime (Italy)

converse with Marie-Christine Jamet (Ca' Foscari University of Venice) and Pietro Del Soldà

In collaboration with Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, Dedica Festival Pordenone, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore, Einaudi


The meeting is part of the project "Celebrations of the 700 years since the death of Marco Polo"

The conversation will be in French.

Maylis de Kerangal was born in Toulon in 1967. She is considered one of the most important contemporary writers. After Je marche sous un ciel de traîne (“I Walk Under a Trailing Sky”, 2000), she wrote Naissance d’un pont (Birth of a Bridge, 2013), Réparer les vivants (“Repairing the Living”, 2015), Lampedusa (2015), Corniche Kennedy (2018), Un monde à portée de main (“A World Within Reach”, 2020), the collection Canoës (“Canoes”, 2022) and Tangente vers l’Est (“Escape to the East”, 2023). She received many prizes, including the Médicis (2010), the Landerneau (2012), the France Culture/Télérama (2014), the Gregor von Rezzori (2014), the Grand Prix de littérature Henri Gal de l’Académie Française (2014) and the Giovanni Boccaccio Literary Prize for International Literature (2016). In 2004, she founded the publishing house Le Baron Perché. She has also written two children’s books: Nina et les oreillers (“Nina and the Pillows”, 2011) and Hors-pistes (“Free-ride”, 2014), with Alexandra Pichard and Tom Haugomat respectively.

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