Règne animal

mardi 24 février 2026
à 13:00
Conversation
Amphithéâtre

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo is a writer. His novel Règne animal (Animal Kingdom) captivates readers with the depth of time it conveys, set in a single location, a farm that has seen generations of a family come and go and agricultural practices undergo radical change. The way in which the narrative intertwines living beings and human activities helps to renew our view of agricultural land through the prism of contemporary ecological considerations.

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo is the author of six novels: Une éducation libertine (Gallimard, 2008), which won the Prix Goncourt for a first novel, Règne animal (Gallimard, 2016), winner of the Prix du livre Inter, Le fils de l'homme (Gallimard, 2020), which received the Prix Fnac, and La nuit ravagée (Gallimard, 2025). His novels have been translated into some twenty languages, including English (United Kingdom, United States, Australia), Spanish, German, Italian and Norwegian. He was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome from 2010 to 2011 and at the Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 2015.

Cycle
Proposed by architects and teachers Gwenaëlle d'Aboville and David Enon, the Tuesday Lessons cycle Fictions: Other Worlds invites listeners to hear from writers who construct fictions, much like architects do when they design projects.