Masterclasses – By reading, by writing | Season 2023

On the program in 2023

• January 24, 2023 | Emmanuel Guibert
  6:30 p.m. > 8 p.m.
  National Library of France | François-Mitterrand site – Large auditorium
  Quai François-Mauriac – Paris 13th.

Born in 1964, Emmanuel Guibert attended the Arts Déco in Paris. In 1994, he joined a collective studio frequented by Joann Sfar, Christophe Blain, Emile Bravo, Marjane Satrapi and many others, where he worked for five years. His collaboration with the publishing house l’Association marks an evolution towards a refined style in the service of the lived stories of his friend Alan Cope, American soldier of the Second World War. In this biographical series, still in progress, we find Alan’s War (3 volumes), Alan’s childhood and Martha & Alan. He continues in this vein with The photograph (at Dupuis), based on interviews with Didier Lefèvre, who went to Afghanistan in the 1980s. This trilogy, translated into 20 languages, has earned its authors (Guibert-Lefèvre-Lemercier) awards worldwide. Then he created several unique series or albums, in particular Space sardine (14 volumes) and Black Olives (3 volumes). With Marc Boutavant, he launched the series Ariol, at Bayard, which to date has 20 volumes translated into many languages. He also creates songs and his interest in jazz led him to develop, with graphic designer and producer Philippe Ghielmetti, all the covers for the Vision Fugitive label. In 2007, he was awarded the Villa Kujoyama. From this award will be born the album Japanese in 2008, collections of paintings, drawings and short stories. With a group of author friends, he publishes the volume caves at Futuropolis and creates parietal frescoes in a cave in Quercy. In 2017, he won the René Goscinny prize for his entire work as a screenwriter at the Angoulême festival. Emmanuel Guibert received the Grand Prix of the city of Angoulême during the International Comics Festival in 2020.

• February 14, 2023 | Brigitte GiraudPrix Goncourt 2022
  6:30 p.m. > 8 p.m.
  National Library of France | François-Mitterrand site – Large auditorium
  Quai François-Mauriac – Paris 13th.

Born in Algeria in 1960, Brigitte Giraud studied German and English, then headed for the professions of bookseller, journalist, literary critic and festival programmer. In 1997, she published her first novel, Parents’ room. Several books will follow, novels, stories or collections of short stories. Brigitte Giraud has published numerous short stories and various texts in various journals: NRF, Dawn Magazine… She won the Goncourt short story prize for Love is very overrated (Stock 2007), the Giono Jury Prize for A foreign year (Stock 2009) and the mention of the Wepler prize for Now (Stock 2001). His books have been translated into fifteen languages, and his novel No worries (Stock 2011) was adapted for a TV movie (France 2, broadcast 2014) directed by Thierry Binisti, with Isabelle Carré and Grégory Fitoussi in the main roles. His novel We will be heroes (2015) is the subject of a reading staged by actor Hippolyte Girardot and musician Bastien Lallemant. From 2010 to 2016, Brigitte Giraud directs the literature collection “La forêt” at Stock editions where she notably publishes the authors Fabio Viscogliosi, Dominique A, Sébastien Berlendis, Mona Thomas. On November 3, 2022, she won the Goncourt 2022 prize, with her story live fast, which looks back on the motorcycle accident that killed her husband, Claude Giraud, in 1999, at the age of 41. She is the thirteenth woman to receive this award in one hundred and twenty years (since 1903). She was named Officer of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2014.

• March 21, 2023 | Stefan Hermans
  6:30 p.m. > 8 p.m.
  National Library of France | François-Mitterrand site – Large auditorium
  Quai François-Mauriac – Paris 13th..

Stefan Hertmans, born in Ghent in 1951, has published several collections of poetry, essays and novels. His poetic work has been awarded the triennial prize of the Flemish Community. His novel War and Turpentine, translated into twenty-four languages, was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize. He has published all his novels with Gallimard editions, including an ascent in January 2022. In the “Arcades” collection also appears in May 2022 Poetics of silencea volume bringing together four essays by Stefan Hertmans on poetic modernity in its relationship to language and silence, focused on his reflections on the works of Hölderlin, Paul Celan and WG Sebald in particular.

• April 18, 2023 | miguel bonnefoy
  6:30 p.m. > 8 p.m.
  National Library of France | François-Mitterrand site – Large auditorium
  Quai François-Mauriac – Paris 13th.

Born in France in 1986, Miguel Bonnefoy grew up in Venezuela and Portugal. He was a French teacher for the Alliance Française. In 2009, he won the grand prize for the Nouvelle de la Sorbonne with The House and the Thief. In the same year he published When we locked the labyrinth in the Minotaur (edizione del Giano, Rome) and in 2011, Shipwrecks (Quespire editions) was noticed at the 2012 Inperception prize. In 2013, he won the Young Writer prize with Icarus and other short stories (Buchet-Chastel). Octavio’s Journey his first novel, published in 2015, was a finalist for the Goncourt prize for the first novel, the Vocation prize, the Five Continents prize – special mention, the Fénéon prize, the Edmée de la Rochefoucauld prize and the Île aux livres prize. In 2017, Black Sugar (Rivages) is a finalist for the Prix Femina, Prix Millepages, Prix Renaissance and prize for high school students at the Escale du livre de Bordeaux. In 2018-2019, he is a resident at the Villa Medici. In 2020, Miguel Bonnefoy publishes Legacy (Rivages), Booksellers Prize, Valery Larbaud Prize, finalist for the Grand Prize of the French Academy and the Goncourt des lycéens. In 2021-2022, he is a “fellow” of the DAAD artist residency in Berlin. In 2022, he publishes The inventor (Rivages), Heritage Prize, Louvre Banque Privée.

• May 23, 2023 | Camilla Lackberg
  6:30 p.m. > 8 p.m.
  National Library of France | François-Mitterrand site – Large auditorium
  Quai François-Mauriac – Paris 13th.

Born in 1974 in Sweden, Camilla Läckberg showed a great aptitude for writing from an early age and nourished a fascination for the darkness of the human soul. Her first story, written when she was five years old, tells of the murder of Mrs. Claus by her famous husband. After studying at the Gothenburg School of Economics, she moved to Stockholm where a Creative Writing course gave her the impetus to write her first novel, The Ice Princess. She quickly met with great international success thanks to her heroine Erica Falck and the series Fjallbacka, with which she became the undisputed queen of Scandinavian thrillers. Published in more than 60 countries, his books have sold more than 30 million copies worldwide and have been the subject of a large number of audiovisual adaptations. She is also the author of children’s books (series Super Charlie), cookbooks (At the table with Camilla Läckberg), a diptych featuring the character of a businesswoman, Faye Adelheim (The golden cage and The Silver Wings) and more recently from the series Mina and Vincent co-written with the mentalist Henrik Fexeus and whose second part The cult will be published in May 2023. Alongside her work as a writer, Camilla Läckberg is an energetic entrepreneur who works in particular to promote the involvement of women in the business world. She is also one of the founders of production company Bad Flamingo Studios. In France, all his books are published by Actes Sud.