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Literary Festival #35
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« PAR CŒUR ET PAR CORPS, MOT A MOT » avec Marie-Hélène Lafon et 80 écrivains et artistes
En novembre, Montauban vit au rythme des Lettres d’automne !
Dernière mise à jour le : 21 July 2025
35th edition from 17 to 30 November 2025in Montauban and Occitanie

Opening evening on Tuesday 18 November from 6.30pm with Marie-Hélène Lafon.

More information and programme to follow

    Guest of honour

    Marie-Hélène LAFON
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      For its 35th edition, the festival welcomes Marie-Hélène Lafon as guest of honour.

      A writer of novels and short stories, often rooted in the rural world of her native Cantal, Marie-Hélène Lafon now lives in Paris. Her first novel, Le soir du chien, won the Prix Renaudot des lycéens in 2001. Numerous texts have followed in which she gives voice to characters locked in silence, who exist only through their bodies and gestures.

      Her books have been acclaimed by readers and awarded numerous literary prizes, including the Prix Goncourt for short stories in 2016 (Histoires, Buchet-Chastel) and the Prix Renaudot in 2020 (Histoire du fils, Buchet-Chastel).

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