Animal kingdom

mardi 24 février 2026
à 13:00
Conversation
Amphithéâtre

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo is a writer. His novel Règne animal captivates readers with the sense of time it evokes from a single setting—a farm that has seen successive generations of a family come and go, whilst agricultural practices have undergone radical change. The way in which the narrative intertwines living beings and human activities helps to renew our perspective on agricultural landscapes through the lens of contemporary ecological considerations.

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo is the author of six novels: Une éducation libertine (Gallimard, 2008), winner of the Prix Goncourt for a first novel, Règne animal (Gallimard, 2016), winner of the Prix du livre Inter, Le fils de l’homme (Gallimard, 2020), which received the Fnac Prize, and La nuit ravagée (Gallimard, 2025). His novels have been translated into some twenty languages, including English (UK, US, Australia), Spanish, German, Italian and Norwegian. He was a resident at the Villa Medici in Rome from 2010 to 2011 and at Villa Kujoyama in Kyoto in 2015.

Series
Proposed by architects and lecturers Gwenaëlle d'Aboville and David Enon, the Tuesday Lectures series Fictions: Other Worlds invites you to listen to writers who construct fictions, much like architects do when designing projects.