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Jean Rouaud makes literature rhyme with nature

2022-06-22T10:42:02.206Z


The Prix Goncourt with Les Champs d'honneur (1990) organizes the festival "Les Rencontres de Puyméras" on July 23 and 24. On the menu: writing workshops, debates and conferences under the olive trees in the Vaucluse.


Long before it was trendy, Jean Rouaud was always concerned with ecological issues.

The Puyméras Meetings, organized with the novelist Nathalie Skowronek, were born from this concern.

He explains his approach: “A year ago we proposed the first Rencontres de Puyméras, with a double idea, to associate “Literature and Nature”, and to rely edition after edition on the same themes in order to take, not only the temperature of our time (yes, it's getting hotter and hotter), but the pulse of this world confronted with unprecedented challenges in the face of climate change, changes in behavior and lifestyles.

We will therefore find the same themes in this second episode.

Serial encounters, in short.”

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Writing workshops, debates and conferences will be held under the olive trees in the Vaucluse, more precisely at the foot of Mont Ventoux and on the border between the Vaucluse and the Drôme, in the village of Puyméras.

Jean Rouaud and Nathalie Skowronek like to listen to those who speak knowingly, wonder about the present situation and lay the groundwork for hope.

"By the test, the verb or the literature", they underline.

Some examples of encounters:

-"The writers in their garden" (Orwell and Thoreau also kept their feet on the ground)

-"Leaving the city, 2" (After a century of rural exodus, the return to the countryside)

- "Global warming, what can citizens do?"

by Catherine Bernard, Thierry Gillyboeuf, Jean-Pierre Martin, Jean Rouaud.

The architect of these encounters adds: “The hand with the pen is worth the hand with the plough,” said Rimbaud.

The future of the vine, agroforestry, the reintroduction of vultures, plants and truffles, the atlas of biodiversity, youth workshops... a practical and educational approach by specialists in the issues addressed.

To discover, therefore.

To everyone's surprise, Jean Rouaud had received the Goncourt prize for his first novel Les Champs d'honneur (Minuit, 1990).

Latest books published in connection with the theme of the Meetings: The future of the simple (Grasset, 2020), Qui terre a, guerre a (Grasset, 2022).

Nathalie Skowronek published her first novel Karen et moi, with Arléa, in 2011. La carte des regrets (Grasset, 2020) won the European Union Prize for Literature.

For more info on the festival: www.lesrencontresdepuymeras.com

Source: lefigaro

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