Richard Gaitet

Maria Pourchet

Le cygne offert à l’empereur

The Swan Offered to the Emperor
October 27, 2023
Essay
128 pages
11,90 €
9791041413492
979-1-0414-1349-2

“Points Bookmakers” collection

																Richard Gaitet, Maria Pourchet
																Richard Gaitet, Maria Pourchet

Adapted from the podcast, an interview entirely rewritten and enriched with unpublished passages.

What do we find under Maria Pourchet’s pen? Why did she wait until she was thirty to start writing—when she was already sure of her vocation in the second grade? What was Romain Gary’s inspiration? How did language become her “buddy”?

Maria Pourchet is a French novelist with a doctorate in social sciences. Her books include Rome en un jour (Prix Erckmann-Chatrian 2013), Les Impatients and Feu. She is also involved in the development of various fiction and documentary projects for television.

The author

Born in Lyon in 1981 on a sparkling autumn day, Richard Gaitet is the author of three novels published by Intervalles Editions: Les heures pâles (2013), Découvrez Mykonos hors saison (2014) and L’aimant (2016, with drawings by Riff Reb’s). He then published two documentary stories with Paulsen Editions: Tête en l’air (2018) and Rimbaud Warriors (2019).
He is also a journalist for Arte Radio and Radio Nova, where he hosts and produces the podcasts “Bookmakers, les écrivain·e·s au travail” and “L’Arche de Nova”.
Richard Gaitet is also the co-author and voice of the animated series Culte – lecteurs sous influence, created by David Brun-Lambert and Aurélie Pollet, broadcast on the Arte website (2017). Finally, he participated in the screenplay of the film Si tu voyais son cœur, directed by Joan Chemla, with Gael García Bernal (2017).

The edition

The new collection to know everything about the great names of contemporary literature, from Richard Gaitet’s podcast on Arte Radio.

October 27, 2023
Essay
128 pages
11,90 €
9791041413492
979-1-0414-1349-2

“Points Bookmakers” collection