Institut Pierre Werner (IPW)

Coopération : Institut français du Luxembourg

Soutien : neimënster

Jean-Philippe Toussaint was born in Brussels in 1957. He is a writer, filmmaker and photographer. His first novel La Salle de bain was published in 1985. He is the author of about twenty books published by Éditions de Minuit. He won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for Fuir and the Prix Décembre in 2009 for La Vérité sur Marie. His novels have been translated into over twenty languages. He has directed four feature films, including La Patinoire in 1999, and has presented photo exhibitions around the world. His personal website (www.jptoussaint.com) is a creative site, hosting drafts of his books and featuring interactive literary projects. In 2012, he presented the exhibition BOOK/LOUVRE at the Louvre Museum, an exhibition that combines photographs, videos and installations to “evoke the book without going through the written word.”

Ian De Toffoli (1981), born in Luxembourg to an Italian-Luxembourgish family, is a writer, playwright and academic, author of a doctoral thesis defended at the Sorbonne-Paris IV, essays and plays published and translated in several European countries. Since 2012, her plays have been created at the Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, the Théâtre national de Luxembourg, the Théâtre du Centaure, but also in France, Belgium, Germany and Italy.