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 is a regular contributor to literary and humanities journals and anthologies. 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 Villa Medici revolves around the figures of the jellyfish and the hen. She is interested in situations and works of art in which both have arisen as a result of their relationship and their struggle with a human being. Using the guiding term “fringe”, Céline Curiol examines the off-limits, the invasive, the monstrous. The writing of this project will endeavor to take place within a novel-narrative, where three fictional women should appear, each evolving at different distances from the heart of Rome – and from that of the author – of the and of their natures. The stakes of this work will be poetic and political, ecological and feminist, humorous.