Gérard de Cortanze
Invited to the 2017 Books & Music Festival
Gérard de Cortanze won the 2002 Renaudot Prize for his novel Assam (Éditions Albin Michel). He has also written numerous essays on painting as well as biographies. Member of the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium, he directs the collection FolioBiographies and contributes to the journal Historia.