One more transformation for Line Papin: poetry has won its pen in a collection published in April 2023. Received on the set of the show “Conversations”, hosted by Joseph Ghosn, in mid-January, she thus returns to her latest work ,
After Love.
“I wrote poems following a breakup.
And I believe that the work of writing has as its starting point a kind of mourning.
Mourning painful moments by transforming them into poems, such is the state of mind of the 28-year-old novelist, divorced from singer Marc Lavoine in 2022.
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The author wanted to give another dimension to this particular project, and surrounded herself with other artists: the painter Inès Longevial for the illustration, and the musician Benjamin Siksou for the “song setting”.
For the artist, between poetry and song, there is only one step.
“I have the impression that the song popularizes poetry but in the noblest way possible,” she confides in this long interview with Joseph Ghosn, deputy editorial director of
Madame Figaro
.