Colette Fellous


Colette Fellous is the author of more than twenty novels, including Aujourd’hui (2005), for which she received the Prix Marguerite Duras, and La préparation de la vie (2014), in which she pays homage to her mentor Roland Barthes.

An interviewer and radio producer for France Culture for 30 years, she is now editorial director of the collection ‘Traits et portraits’ at Éditions Mercure de France. She is also a photographer, and lives between France and Tunisia, where she was born.

This Tilting World was translated by Sophie Lewis.

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‘Beyond the sadness and the loss, is a great seductive energy – we are drawn by a wish to live and to learn – and Fellous’s inimitable way of regarding the world.’ — Madame Figaro, on Un amour de frère

Photograph © Catherine Hélie

Photograph © Catherine Hélie