Festilitt 2024 guests
Leonor De Recondo
Authors’ talks and Book signings
Sunday 13 octobre à 14h30
Salle des fêtes
The author and violinist Leonor de Recondo will present her novel, Grand Feu, a story of Venice in the time of Vivaldi.
In 1699, Ilaria Tagianotte is born into a family of fabric merchants. When she is just a few weeks old, her mother places her in the Pieta, where she is taught music.
Sunjeev Sahota
Authors’ talks and Book signings
Sunday 13 octobre à 16h
Salle des fêtes
Sunjeev Sahota, the Booker-nominated British novelist, received the EU literary prize in 2017.
He will be talking about his latest novel, The Spoiled Heart, which tells the story of Nayan Olak, who has not risked love since the death of his young son. Instead, he channels his grief and his energy into work. But the time for a new challenge has arrived…
Catherine Bernard
Authors’ talks and Book signings
Saturday 12 octobre à 14h30
Ecole du bas
Catherine Bernard, a journalist for twenty years, abandoned her profession in 2004 to cultivate her vines. And so began a new life. She tells her story over several books: Dans les vignes, Ma part des anges, Une place sur Terre …
This year, she presents her latest vintage, Lambrusque, a poetic text par excellence.
Matthew Parker
Authors’ talks and Book signings
Saturday 12 octobre à 14h30
Salle des fêtes
Author of historical essays, notably on colonialism and the Second World War, Matthew Parker offers his view of the British Empire at the start of the twentieth century.
One Fine Day, takes a single day in 1923, and highlights common issues that are still relevant today.
Alain Monnier
Authors’ talks and Book signings
Sunday 13 octobre à 11h15
Salle des fêtes
The author of a dozen works, fables and novels, Alain Monnier strives to take a critical look at modernity.
D’autres terres que les nôtres is the saga of an Italian family forced, by fascism, to immigrate to Occitanie.
M. L. Longworth
Authors’ talks and Book signings
Saturday 12 octobre à 10h
Médiathèque
M. L. Longworth is a Canadian author who, in 1997, moved to Provence, the setting of her popular series of detective novels.
Melanie Cantor
Authors’ talks and Book signings
Saturday 12 octobre à 11h15
Salle des fêtes
Melanie Cantor came to fiction writing following a successful career as a celebrity talent agent and publicist and brings a sharply observed humour to the two novels she has published.
Elrik Fabre-Maigné et Vincent Pouchet
“Lecture musicale”
Saturday 12 octobre à 16h
Salle des fêtes
Elrik Fabre-Maigné, accompanied on the cello by Vincent Pouchet, leads a bilingual literary and musical hommage to good wine, drawing on French and English literary texts.
Nicolas Padamsee
Authors’ talks and Book signings
Sunday 13 octobre à 14h30
Médiathèque
Nicolas Padamsee was named one of The Observer’s Best New Novelists in 2024 thanks to his politically engaged, urgently plotted coming-of-age thriller set in London.
Violaine Bérot
Authors’ talks and Book signings
Sunday 13 octobre à 16h
Ecole du bas
In “Pastorales”, former livestock breeder Violaine Bérot works with a shepherdess and an academic to recreate a contemporary version of Virgil’s Bucolics.
Joff Winterhart
Artist in résidence
Saturday and sunday
Everywhere
Joff Winterhart enchanted us all with his humour, warmth and brilliant graphic novels when he came to Festilitt in 2019. He’ll be back this year as our artist in residence. He will be busy illustrating key moments.
Jean Poderos
Authors’ talks and Book signings
Saturday 12 octobre à 11h
École du bas
Jean Poderos creates beautiful books to assemble children and adults around art and culture.