Rencontre avec Marie HL

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Meet Marie HL on Thursday, October 29 at 7 p.m., to mark the publication of her latest title, les cailloux, recently published in the iF collection by Abrapalabra editions. Despite her mother’s warnings, a woman is fortunate to return “unharmed” from a country at war. Yet the legacy of violence is passed on through the body, without lineage. This text was born of a conviction and a fissure: the conviction that we cannot escape our political body, and the fissure of a body bearing the trace of invisible violence. In a narrative flow, Marie HL weaves together feminine voices that might hold this body—or these bodies—letting poetry take over when “understanding” is lost. The stones, as a motif of fissure, spread from body to body, from woman to woman, from one land to another, like an inexorable inheritance from the world. They are fragments of stone, partial truths, memories of a body or a territory at war. But they also become a bond, like a sisterhood that extends beyond a single family. @siloemarie lives in Marseille. She has lived in several cities and countries. For her, writing is one of the few spaces for freedom, sensitivity, and genuine political commitment. She founded Stade Poétique, leads writing workshops, teaches literary creation at the Marseille School of Architecture, and is part of the writing coordination team for a TV series. les cailloux is her second book, following jardin (iF, 2024).