Julia Kerninon

Coquilles

February 19, 2026
Poetry
160 pages
115 × 175 mm
9,90 €
9791027808281
979-1-0278-0828-1
Graphic design by Magali Giraudo

Diffusion / Distribution : Interforum

																Julia Kerninon, Coquilles
																Julia Kerninon, Coquilles

Since she began writing, Julia Kerninon has had one obsession: how to learn to write? For the first time, she attempts to answer this question. Each poem is an opportunity for her to note down a few techniques, tricks, and habits, creating a sort of writing manual in small blocks.

As she progresses, the practice of her art is gradually contaminated by her daily life. Literary life and everyday life intertwine and respond to each other inextricably. We then discover another, more intimate side of the author: the one that exists alongside writing, which takes root in her childhood and unfolds into the person she has become today.

The author

Writer and translator Julia Kerninon was born in Nantes in 1987. With a PhD in American literature, she now devotes herself to writing.
She is the author of Buvard (Le Rouergue), Liv Maria (L’Iconoclaste), Sauvage (L’Iconoclaste), and Toucher la terre ferme (from the “Proche” collection – Iconoclaste).

Highlights

From the author of the bestseller Liv Maria, which has sold over 150,000 copies, and Sauvage, which has sold over 30,000 copies.

An intimate collection about her relationship with writing, her mother, and motherhood, in the tradition of Joan Didion and Rachel Cusk.

With a lucid and necessary voice, Julia Kerninon once again gives a voice to women’s lives: their desires, their relationship to motherhood and contemporary love.

February 19, 2026
Poetry
160 pages
115 × 175 mm
9,90 €
9791027808281
979-1-0278-0828-1
Graphic design by Magali Giraudo

Diffusion / Distribution : Interforum