Literary meeting with Sandrine Collette – 18 p.m.

Presentation text
That evening, when Liam returns from the mountainous forests where he went hunting, he immediately guesses that something has happened. Her five-year-old little boy, Aru, is not waiting for her outside the house. In the yard, he discovers the footprints of a bear. Next to it, under the inert body of his wife, he finds his son. Alive. In the midst of his crumbling existence, Liam has one certainty. This wild world is not made for a child. Determined to entrust his son to someone other than himself, he prepares a long journey to the rhythm of the horses' footsteps. But in these depths, no one knows what can happen. Even less a man mad with rage and pain accompanied by a terrified child.
In the tradition of And Always the Forests, Sandrine Collette immerses her reader in a nature that is as overwhelming as it is indifferent to humans. Throughout these sublime pages, she questions the paternal instinct and the price of a possible rebirth.

Obtaining the Renaudot prize for high school students 2022 and the Jean Giono Prize 2022

Biography
French novelist, she divides her time between the Paris region and her horse breeding in the Morvan.
Literary baccalaureate, Master in philosophy and doctorate in political science. Thesis (1999): “From the national lottery to the French games (1933-1998): contribution to a sociology of the modern state. »
Lecturer at the University of Nanterre, part-time consultant in a human resources consulting office; she restored houses in Champagne and then in Morvan.
She composes a fiction and sends her manuscript to Denoël editions. It is “Des knots d’acier”, published in 2013, the first novel which met with critical and public success: 20 copies sold, and the “Grand Prize for detective literature” as well as the “Literary Prize for high school students and apprentices of Burgundy.
Second novel in 2014 “A Wind of Ashes”, (by Denoël, which revisits the tale “Beauty and the Beast”.
2015: Having become one of the big names in French thrillers, once again, she shows her unstoppable expertise in “Six Fourmis Blanches”.
“It remains the dust” won the Landerneau Prize for thrillers in 2016.
In 2017, “Black Tears on the Earth” appeared.
His eighth novel, “And Always the Forests”, a post-apocalyptic fiction, was rewarded, in 2020, with the La Closerie des Lilas prize, the Amerigo Vespucci 2020 prize and the RTL-Lire grand prize.