Jakuta Alikavazovic

Jakuta Alikavazovic
Period: 2013-2014
Profession: Writer Jakuta Alikavazovic was born in Paris. A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure and the agrégation d’anglais, she has taught at the ENS, the Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Sorbonne. She has published a collection of short stories,
Histoires contre nature (2006) and three novels:
Corps volatils (Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman 2008),
Le Londres-Louxor (2010) and
La Blonde et le Bunker (Prix Wepler – Mention Spéciale du Jury 2012). She is regularly invited to reflect on the relationship between literature and the visual arts (NYU Paris, Musée des Beaux Arts de Lyon…). She has contributed to a number of collective publications and, for the magazine
Espace(s) , she has worked with archives from the CNES Space Observatory. Since 2011, she has devoted herself to writing and translation. At Villa Medici, Jakuta Alikavazovic will devote herself to a story entitled
L’Institut central, in homage to a Roman site: the Istituto centrale per il restauro e la conservazione del patrimonio archivistico e librario in via Milano, a kind of “book hospital” where the damage caused by time and man to precious volumes and rare manuscripts is thwarted. This patient restoration work provides a counterpoint to the cultural destruction of the 20th century, particularly the fire at the Sarajevo Library in August 1992.