Pierre Furlan

Novelist, short story writer, translator and theater critic, Pierre Furlan has maintained a special link with the South Pacific since his residency at Randell Cottage (2004-2005).

During his stay in Wellington, he was able to deepen his relationship with New Zealand literature, which enabled him to edit the special issue of EUROPE magazine devoted to New Zealand (n° 931-932) and to be the literary advisor for the 2006 Belles-Étrangères festival, an event for which twelve New Zealand authors were invited to France. Furlan's writing draws on the gap between imagination and reality, questioning the familiarity of our everyday world.

Furlan is also interested in theater. He has written radio plays and was a theater critic for several years. But he seems to have an even closer link with the visual arts. Two of his books were the subject of limited editions illustrated by Belgian artist Alain Petre, and the figure of the great Swiss painter Louis Soutter is present in three of his works of fiction, notably in the novel La Tentation Américaine (Actes Sud, 1993) and the short story Le Violon de Soutter (Esperluète, 2003).