Céline Curiol

Céline Curiol (France, 1975) is a novelist and essayist. She has published a dozen books, including Voix sans issue, Permission, L’Ardeur des pierres, Un quinze août à Paris – histoire d’une dépression, Finir par l’éternité and Les lois de l’ascension, several of which have been translated abroad. She regularly contributes to journals and anthologies related to literature or the humanities. A graduate of the École nationale supérieure des techniques avancées and the Sorbonne, she worked as a reporter abroad for over ten years before returning to live in France, where she teaches creative writing and written communication.

Her research and writing project at the French Academy in Rome revolves around the figures of the jellyfish and the chicken. It focuses on situations and works of art where both have arisen as a result of their relationships and entanglements with a human being. Using a guiding element, that of the fringe, Céline Curiol examines the off-limits, the invasive, the monstrous. It is within a novel-narrative that the writing of this project will strive to take place, where three fictional women should appear, each evolving at different distances from the heart of Rome – and from the author’s heart -, and from their own natures. The stakes of this work will be poetic and political, ecological and feminist, as well as humorous.

 

Photo portrait © Daniele Molajoli
Video portrait © Laurent Perreau pour l’Académie de France à Rome – Villa Médicis