{"id":8999278,"date":"2026-08-28T22:09:27","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:09:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/?post_type=app_event&#038;p=8999278"},"modified":"2026-08-28T22:19:47","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T22:19:47","slug":"midwest-tour-author-laure-gouraige","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/midwest-tour-author-laure-gouraige\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Laure Gouraige | Midwest Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of the <strong>2026 Jules Verne Writing Residency<\/strong>, Gouraige will give three public talks at <strong>The Ohio State University, Washington University in St. Louis, and Indiana University &#8211; Bloomington<\/strong>, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of her writing\u2014from her early autobiographical texts to her latest novel, <em>Mirapolis<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Rather than discussing her books as finished works, Gouraige will reflect on what writing them has taught her: how personal experience can be transformed into literature, how philosophical questions can shape a fictional world, and how a writer moves from telling her own story to creating worlds of her own. She will also share how working on a long-term project has changed her relationship with writing and time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Thu, September 3, 2026 | The Ohio State University &#8211; Columbus (OH)<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More info <a href=\"https:\/\/frenchcoe.osu.edu\/events\/novel\">Learning to Live Inside a Novel with Laure Gouraige<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Wed, September 9, 2026 | Washington University &#8211; Saint Louis (MO)<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More info <a href=\"https:\/\/rll.washu.edu\/events\/learning-live-inside-novel-conversation-writer-residence-laure-gouraige\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/rll.washu.edu\/events\/learning-live-inside-novel-conversation-writer-residence-laure-gouraige\">Learning to Live Inside a Novel: A Conversation with Writer-in-Residence Laure Gouraige<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<details class=\"wp-block-details is-layout-flow wp-block-details-is-layout-flow\"><summary><strong>Tues, September 15, 2026 | Indiana University &#8211; Bloomington (IN)<\/strong><\/summary>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More info <a href=\"https:\/\/french.indiana.edu\/news\/index.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/french.indiana.edu\/news\/index.html\">LAURE GOURAIGE: Learning to Live Inside a Novel<\/a><\/p>\n<\/details>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the author<\/strong> : Laure Gouraige is a French novelist based in Paris. She is the author of four novels:\u00a0<em>La Fille du p\u00e8re<\/em>\u00a0(P.O.L, 2020),\u00a0<em>Les Id\u00e9es noires\u00a0<\/em>(P.O.L, 2022),\u00a0<em>Le livre que je n\u2019ai pas \u00e9crit<\/em>\u00a0(P.O.L, 2024), and\u00a0<em>Grave<\/em>\u00a0(Les Intranquilles, 2026). Her work explores questions of identity, memory, family, and the ways fiction transforms lived experience. She is currently completing\u00a0<em>Mirapolis<\/em>, a novel inspired by her writing residency in the United States. In 2026, she was awarded the Jules Verne Writing Residency, which has brought her to several universities across the American Midwest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>The Midwest Tour is organized by Professors<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/frit.osu.edu\/people\/hoffmann.312\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/frit.osu.edu\/people\/hoffmann.312\">Benjamin Hoffman<\/a><\/strong>, Director of the Center of Excellence of the French Embassy at OSU, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/rll.washu.edu\/people\/lionel-cuille\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/rll.washu.edu\/people\/lionel-cuille\">Lionel Cuill\u00e9<\/a><\/strong>, Director of the Center of Excellence of the French Embassy at WU and <a href=\"https:\/\/nam11.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffrit.indiana.edu%2Fabout%2Ffaculty%2Fpanaite-oana.html&amp;data=05%7C02%7Claurence.geannopulos%40villa-albertine.org%7Cb6d8fb2a684e4328447f08df0425d649%7C2d6ab33a15c04d1eb0363b23ceb26830%7C0%7C0%7C639234232734282328%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=zWiKca5UBUyo0ha5d%2Ft0SnSwbrQ7q%2FKBXL9206grkOo%3D&amp;reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><u><strong>Oana Pana\u00eft\u00e9<\/strong><\/u><\/a>, Director of the Center of Excellence of the French Embassy at IU with the support of Villa Albertine Chicago.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":8999279,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[511,213],"app_city_tax":[223],"app_event_type":[241],"class_list":["post-8999278","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-fiction","app_discipline-literature","app_city_tax-chi","app_event_type-talk"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Author Laure Gouraige | Midwest Tour - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/midwest-tour-author-laure-gouraige\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Author Laure Gouraige | Midwest Tour - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"As part of the 2026 Jules Verne Writing Residency, Gouraige will give three public talks at The Ohio State University, Washington University in St. Louis, and Indiana University &#8211; Bloomington, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of her writing\u2014from her early autobiographical texts to her latest novel, Mirapolis. 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