Julie Guinand - Foto: Juliette Félix

What does it mean to live in a world where natural catastrophes are not avoidable? Is it the role of literature to propose postapocalyptic fictions to place the reader in front of this reality? Come and take part in the conversation with Julie Guinand. The talk will be in French

Julie Guinand was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, in 1989. Her collection of short stories, Dérives asiatiques (Asian Drift), appeared in 2016 and Reportages climatiques (Climate Reports), a collective work to which she contributed, in 2015 (both at Éditions d’autre part). Her short novel Hors-la-loi (Outlaw) was published by Paulette Éditrice in 2018. A member of the AJAR collective, Julie Guinand has received several awards for young authors. Her latest novel, Survivante (survivor) is a diary of the end of the world, as experienced from the inside. Between a house too big for her and the natural surroundings of the banks of the Doubs, the diarist gathers, lists and organises the fragments of a world that has passed in order to build a new one, day by day. Post-apocalyptic more in the challenge it throws out to its readers than in its form, Survivor intelligently questions our relationship to solitude, separation and change.