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8-10 April 2022

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VANESSA SPRINGORA

France



Vanessa Springora is a French publisher, writer and film director. In January 2020, she published Le Consentement, a personal story which recounts how, when she was fourteen years old, an author who was 36 years her senior, exercised control over her. The book was awarded the prix Jean-Jacques Rousseau de l’autobiographie and the Grand prix des Lectrices de ELLE and generated an international media coverage. It is has been translated in 30 countries.

 
Vanessa Springora est une éditrice, réalisatrice et autrice française. En janvier 2020, elle publie Le Consentement, un récit personnel qui relate l’emprise exercée sur elle, à l’âge de quatorze ans, par un écrivain de 36 ans son aîné. L’ouvrage, couronné du prix Jean-Jacques Rousseau de l’autobiographie et du Grand prix des Lectrices de ELLE, a connu un retentissement médiatique international. Il est actuellement traduit dans 30 pays.

WRITERS

We welcome this year 19 writers of French, English and Irish languages


Estelle Benazet Heugenhauser

France 

John Boyne

Ireland

Niamh Campbell

Ireland

Jan Carson

Northen  Ireland

Oein De Bhairduin

Ireland

Fanie Demeule

Québec

Irene Frain

France

Emmanuelle Josse

France

Hervé Le Tellier

France

Eoin McNamee

Ireland

Pap Ndiaye

France

Áine Ní Ghlinn

Ireland

Micheál Ó Conghaile

Ireland

Kevin Power

Ireland

Keith Ridgway

Ireland

Rita Sakr

Lebanon / Italy

Anne Serre

France

Ailbhe Smyth

Ireland

Vanessa Springora

France

PRESENTED BY

Alliance Française Dublin
French Embassy in Ireland
Dublin Unesco

PARTNERS

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