Now in residence

Adrien Blouët, France

(in residence from 27 January to 4 March)

Born in 1992, Adrien Blouët is a graduate of the École des Beaux-Arts de Paris, where he discovered anthropology, a discipline that eventually led to his writing fiction. In 2017, he joined the Offshore School located in Shanghai, China, a training and research program that allows young artists to confront their work with the context of globalization through an active immersion in one of the most representative megacities of the economic and cultural mutations of the contemporary world. He then travels to Japan. His novels, L’absence de ciel (2019) and Les immeubles de fer (2021), have been published by Noir sur Blanc under their “Notabilia” imprint.

Amanda Prat Giral, France

(in residence from 24 February to 25 March)

Amanda Prat-Giral grew up in a trilingual environment. She graduated from ESIT with a Master’s degree in technical translation and went on to earn a second Master’s in literary translation from Paris 7, before beginning a career as a freelance translator. She has worked for several UN organizations since 2014, as well as the publisher Actes Sud, translating in particular a number of essays on ecology for Actes Sud’s “Domaine du possible” imprint.

Daniel Galera, Brazil

(in residence from 1 to 31 March)

Born in 1979, the Brazilian writer and translator Daniel Galera lives and works in Porto Alegre. He has published five novels, most notably Barba Ensopada de Sangue (Companhia das Letras, 2012), the winner of the São Paulo Prize for Novels in 2012 and widely translated (the English translation, Blood-Drenched Beard, was brought out by Penguin Books in 2014). His most recent novel, Meia-Noite e Vinte (Companhia das Letras, 2016), is available in English as Twenty After Midnight (Penguin Books, 2020). He has also translated into Portuguese fiction by a variety of major English-language authors, including David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith, Irvine Welsh, and John Cheever.

Katie Kitamura, United States

(in residence from 2 to 17 March)

Katie Kitamura, born in 1979, brought up in California and Japan. She is a novelist, journalist and art critic based in New York. She is the author of four novels, Intimacies (Penguin Books, 2021, nominated for the National Book Award), A Separation (Riverhead Books, 2017, finalist for the Premio von Rezzori), Gone to the Forest (Free Press, 2012, finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award), and The Longshot (Free Press, 2009, finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award). Her work has been translated into eighteen languages. She is a clinical associate professor teaching in the creative writing program at New York University.

Dariusz Krawczyk, Poland

(in residence from 2 to 30 March)

Dariusz Krawczyk, a historian of French literature and culture specializing in Renaissance literature, teaches at the Institute of Romance Studies at the University of Warsaw. He is the author of numerous articles and has co-edited several books, including Femmes et le savoir / Women and Knowledge / Frauen und Wissen (Classiques Garnier, 2020) on the cultural history of women and their access to knowledge.