© Vincent Astier-Perret

I know the importance of the environment for an author. I have experienced how strongly this landscape, its life and atmosphere, influence my writing. For this novel, I need a place unknown to me, an unprecedented forest to be able to populate it with beings from my imagination.

Corinne Morel Darleux is a French writer and eco-socialist activist known for her work on environmental and social issues, often questioning modern notions of progress, competition, and success. Living at the foot of the Vercors mountains, she contributes to various magazines and independent media. Her notable publications include the essay Plutôt couler en beauté que flotter sans grâce (2019) and two young adult novels, Là où le feu et l'ours (2021) and Le gang des chevreuils rusés (2021). Shortly after her first visit to India at the occasion of the New Delhi World Book Fair, she published the essay Alors nous irons chercher la beauté ailleurs (2023), inspired by her experience in India. During her residency at the Vagamon Writer’s Retreat, Corinne worked on a new novel, which has been submitted to Éditions Dalva, the publisher of her previous work La Sauvagière. She is currently awaiting confirmation on the title and publication date of this forthcoming book. As part of her outreach programs, she attended the Kerala Literature Festival in Kozhikode, where she participated in a panel discussion on "Eco-Socialism and Prose." She also took part in the literary program A” Night Out With Words” at the French Embassy in India, where she read passages from her novel Alors nous irons trouver la beauté ailleurs, alternating with a reader who presented the same text in English for the audience.