{"id":606109,"date":"2024-05-02T16:06:29","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T16:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/?post_type=app_professional&p=606109"},"modified":"2024-05-13T13:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T13:55:10","slug":"author-on-tour-colombe-schneck","status":"publish","type":"app_professional","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/professionals\/author-on-tour-colombe-schneck\/","title":{"rendered":"Author on Tour: Colombe Schneck"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

About Colombe Schneck<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Colombe Schneck<\/strong> is a documentary film director, journalist, and the author of twelve books of fiction and nonfiction. She has received prizes from the Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise, Madame Figaro, and the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des gens de Lettres. The recipient of a scholarship from the Villa Medici in Rome as well as a Stendhal grant from the Institut fran\u00e7ais, she was born and educated in Paris, where she still lives.<\/p>\n\n\n

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About Swimming in Paris: A Life in Three Stories<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

(trans. by Lauren Elkin and Natasha Lehrer, Penguin Press, 2024)<\/p>\n

Swimming in Paris<\/em> is a decades-long exploration of sexuality, abortion, friendship, femininity, death, and the complicated relationships that women so often have with their own bodies. Whether depicting a teenage abortion in the midst of a privileged Parisian upbringing, the tenderness of a long friendship, or unexpected romances, Schneck\u2019s prose exudes an unwavering honesty, elegance, and intimacy. In Pamela Druckerman\u2019s words, \u201cSchneck offers a periscopic view into bourgeois Paris and captures the terror and truth of love like only a Frenchwoman can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Written in a style that evokes Annie Ernaux\u2019s precise and intimate work on social milieu and sexuality and Deborah Levy\u2019s profound exploration of what it means to be a woman with desires and creative ambition in this world, Swimming in Paris<\/em> is a powerful meditation on a lifelong journey to reclaim the female body, accepting it for all its frailties and learning to celebrate its strength.<\/p>\n

Swimming in Paris<\/em> will be released in the United States in May 2024.<\/p>\n

For more information, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

Schedule<\/strong><\/p>\n

Colombe Schneck will be on tour in the US in May 2024.<\/p>\n

Her public tour will include:<\/p>\n