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Marin Fouqué
Fellow
2025 - 2026
Literature
Biography
Marin Fouqué (1991, France) is a novelist, poet and performer. A former warehouse worker, passionate about opera singing and English boxing, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Cergy-Pontoise and began interpreting his own texts on stage. Author of 77 (Actes Sud, 2019), G.A.V. (Actes Sud, 2021) and À la terre (XXIbis, 2023), his work has won numerous awards, including the Prix Écrivain from the Fondation Lagardère, the Bourse Jacques Toja from the Théâtre national de la Colline, the Bourse Compose from the CCNC, and the Prix Alain Spiess for best second novel. Regularly invited to present his texts in France and abroad, he currently lives in Seine-Saint-Denis. His first novel is currently being adapted for the theater.
Project
His residency project examines different representations of masculinity over the centuries, from Roman gladiators to masculinist influencers. The project will consist of two parts: a narrative and a performative. Inspired by the mythical figures of masculinity, dwelling in particular on Maciste, an emblematic character of Italian cinema, the project will analyze relationships of domination and the violence they imply, seeking-through the body and writing-possible metamorphoses and escape routes.
The fellows
2024 - 2025
Open call fellows annual selection
Each year, the French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici organizes an international competition to select fellows who will be welcomed at the Villa Medici in Rome for a 12-month residency in creation, experimentation and research (residency begins in September, ends in August).