Delphine de Vigan

In collaboration with the Rotary Club Paris Académies

“But let us say, rather, that this writer is a cross breed, an author who charms adults and can turn the world of young adults upside down. This is also a writer who has earned the adulation of booksellers and has been a critical success, having garnered numerous literary prizes. Here’s the magical touch that this book (No et Moi – No and Me) has: When parents read it they warmly recommend it to their children who in turn read it and pass it on to their friends.”
Le Figaro.fr

The Speaker

Delphine de Vigan, winner of the « Prix des Libraires 2008 » booksellers’ awared, the « Révélation Roman 2007 » and the award Prix Littéraire du Rotary for her novel No et Moi [No and Me], which sold over 100,000 copies, devotes all her time these days to her writing.  She started writing her first novel, Jour sans Faim [Days Without Hunger] from publishers Grasset and J’ai Lu, in 2001, while working as a research director in a polling firm specializing in social trends,. Using the pseudonym Lou Delvig for that first novel, she wrote about the daily battles faced by a nineteen-year-old anorexic.

She quickly went on to publish other titles. In 2005, she released Les jolis garçons [Pretty Boys] from the publisher Lattès, and Un soir de Décembre [One December Evening], from the publishers Lattès and Point Seuil, both dealing with the disillusionment of love.
Her bestseller, No et Moi, published in 2007, tells the story of a young, gifted teenage girl who helps a young homeless woman not much older than she. The novel has been translated into twenty languages and is currently being made into a movie.

Since then, Delphine de Vigan has been collaborating with many other writers. In 2008, she co-authored a collection of post cards from the Roaring Twenties called Sous le Manteau (in English published as Erotic French Post Cards from Flammarion) with Anna Rozen, Philippe Jaenada, and Serge Joncourt.
The same year, in collaboration with eighteen other authors, she wrote an anthology on French literature entitled Mots pour maux from the publisher Gallimard. (The title of this anthology in French has a play on words and can sound, literally, like “words for words” but, as is written, “words for pain”.)
She is currently working on a new novel that is to be released in 2009.

The Lecture

Delphine de Vigan’s particular style is certainly created at the convergence of two paths, where intimacy, which is autobiographical, is mixed in without losing sight of the social value of the subjects.  Through a discussion of her latest book, No et Moi, which follows the story of an unstable young teenage girl named Lou and her encounters with No, a young homeless woman, Delphine de Vigan, will provide some important insights for a better understanding of the writing process, scene-building and character development, not to mention the question of social and moral commitment, a basic idea in this first novel.

Links to articles of Delphine de Vigan:
http://www.evene.fr/livres/actualite/interview-de-delphine-de-vigan-156.php#
http://www.lefigaro.fr/livres/2008/07/01/03005-20080701ARTFIG00284-delphine-de-vigan-mi-guepard-mi-herisson.php

Links to interviews of Delphine de Vigan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXsiy5xNa74
http://www.evene.fr/celebre/biographie/delphine-de-vigan-19509.php?video,2

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