Incroci di civiltà

Festival Internazionale
di Letteratura a Venezia
10 14 aprile 2024

Emilienne Malfatto France

Thursday 11th April - 6.30 pm

Fondazione dell'Albero d'Oro . Palazzo Vendramin Grimani

Emilienne Malfatto

converses with Julien Gabriel Zanetta (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)

In collaboration with Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati, Fondazione dell'Albero d’Oro, Sellerio Editore.

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

The conversation will be in French

Emilienne Malfatto is a photographer, writer, journalist and former war correspondent. Her photographs have been exhibited in France and abroad. They appeared in newspapers such as the "New York Times" and "Washington Post". She won the Prix Goncourt for a debut novel with her Que sur toi se lamente le Tigre (May the Tigris Grieve for You) and the Albert-London Prize for Les serpents viendront pour toi: une histoire colombienne (“The Snakes Will Come for You: A Colombian Story”). She recently collaborated with the photographer Rafael Roa on a non-fiction book about Argentina's last dictatorship, L'absence est une femme aux cheveux noirs (“Absence Is a Woman with Dark Hair”) The Italian translation of her latest novel, Le colonel ne dort pas (“The Colonel Never Sleeps”), is published by Sellerio to coincide with the festival. The novel tells the story of an interrogation and torture specialist who becomes the victim of his own nightmares and imaginary enemies.

© Nataly Villena Vega