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Laura Vazquez is a writer. She has published several books of poetry with various publishers, including La main de la main (Prix de la Vocation) with éditions Cheyne in 2014, and Vous êtes de moins en moins réels with éditions Points in 2022. His first novel, La semaine perpétuelle, was published by Sous-sol in 2021. It won the Prix Wepler special mention and the Prix de la page 111. Her epic, Le livre du large et du long, was published in March 2023 by Editions du Sous-sol. She was a resident at the Villa Medici in 2022-2023 and was awarded the Prix Goncourt for Poetry in 2023. In August 2025, during the literary rentrée, Laura Vazquez will publish her second novel, titled Les forces, with Editions du Sous-sol.

Her texts have been translated into Chinese, English, Spanish, Portuguese,...

Élise Blotière is a filmmaker and artist. Having studied social sciences at EHESS and the University of Rome – La Sapienza, as well as documentary filmmaking, she spent several years in Italy, where she worked primarily with visual artists. She has developed a practice that lies at the intersection of film and performance. In January 2024, she directed her first short fiction film, followed in September by Graine lumière cuire, a performance in collaboration with Laura Vazquez. In spring 2025, during a residency at Villa Medici, she directed Pietre, a film for a second performance with Laura Vazquez. Winner of the ‘Création en cours’ grant from the Ateliers Médicis for the year 2026, she is currently in residence for several months in Southern Corsica, where she is writing her second...