Thionville. A literary encounter with the poetess Cécile Coulon

In addition to the round tables and societal debates that it regularly organizes, the Thionville association Des Mots & Débats also offers frequent and original literary meetings.

After CharlElie Couture, Vincent Duluc, Camille Emmanuelle, Nicolas Mathieu or Lydie Salvayre, on June 10 she received another great voice in literature, Cécile Coulon. Author of eight novels, the first of which was published at the age of 16, and three books of poems which met with growing success, Cécile Coulon is considered “one of the most promising new voices in French literature” and one of of the most widely read of our time.

His novels have been awarded several literary prizes – Prix Mauvais Genres 2012 for The King is not sleepy Booksellers’ Prize in 2017 for Three stormy seasons and World Literary Prize in 2019 for A beast in paradise. His latest published novel, Alone in her home (Éditions de l’Iconoclaste) was one of the events and one of the best sellers of the literary season of 2021 and Cécile Coulon has just started writing a new novel, to be published in 2023.

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Tribute to his grandmother

But the novelist is also a talented and fashionable poetess. Like his novels, his poetry also earned him recognition. His first collection, Brambles thus obtained in 2018 the prestigious Guillaume-Apollinaire Prize and the Prize for the Revelation of Poetry from the Society of People of Letters.

In his second collection, Volcano Black the young woman, born in 1990 in Clermont-Ferrand, in the land of the Auvergne volcanoes, where she still lives and where she embodies the city’s candidacy as European Capital of Culture 2028, testified with as much talent as ever that ” ideas spring up in the midst of volcanoes”.

His latest collection of poems, titled In the absence of the captain and prefaced by singer Mathias Malzieu, is a tribute to his recently deceased grandmother, who was three times his age.

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strong poetry

Cécile Coulon produces strong, moving, sometimes carnal poetry, a beautiful and particular language that she will make heard through a few moments of reading which will punctuate this evening of exchange led by Cyrielle Bethegnies and Pascal Didier. The public will of course be able to ask their questions to the author before a signing session.

Puzzle doors open at 6:30 p.m. Open bar & bookstore on site. Free admission, limited seating available). Reservation recommended: https://bit.ly/DMDCoulon

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