Frederika Amalia Finkelstein

Frederika Amalia Finkelstein, born August 20, 1991 in Paris, is a writer. She studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. Her first novel, L’oubli (Gallimard, 2014) was nominated for the Prix Renaudot, Prix de Flore, Prix de la Vocation and translated into several languages. His second novel, Survivre (Gallimard, 2017) was nominated for the Prix Décembre and then translated and published in Germany (Suhrkamp Editions) in September 2018.

Her residency project is an initiatory novel about the power of memory as emotion and cyclical access to time, as well as the multiple violence of the contemporary world. The book will be polyphonic, traversed by both fictional and real-life destinies, such as those of Cy Twombly and Primo Levi. At the heart of the book is the question of the power and limits of the artistic gesture as a sacrificial place where birth and loss meet.