Violaine Bérot, a French novelist known for spare, precise prose, won the L’Échappée littéraire prize in 2022 for Comme des bêtes. She presents her new novel Du côté des vivants and discusses her literary universe, the construction of her characters and the persistent motivations that drive her writing. The session combines close reading and open conversation, offering insight into rural themes and the representation of the living in contemporary fiction.

In French.