Bibliotopia 2022 | Interview with Colombe Boncenne and Nathalie Piégay

"Love, Care and Mourning: At the mother’s side"
Moderation: Geneviève Bridel

Colombe Boncenne is a French novelist and a literary consultant at the Maison de la poésie in Paris and Les Correspondances de Manosque. "Comme neige" (2016, Prix Fénéon) and "Vue mer" (2020) explore complex social relations, while "Des sirènes" (2022) focuses on an intimate relationship between mother and daughter.

Nathalie Piégay is a French writer and a professor of 20th century French literature at the University of Geneva, specialist at Louis Aragon, Claude Simon, Robert Pinget amongst others. Her novels include "Une femme invisible" (2018) devoted to Louis Aragon’s mother and "La petite ceinture" (2020). Her memoir, "Le caillou noir" (2022), focuses on the final period of her mother’s life.