Marion Curtile, encouraging a passion for writing

She is the winner of the third category of Echo Culture Awards launched by Chaumet jewelry house and still can’t believe it. “I thought it only happened to other people.” » With €10,000, Marion Curtillet will be able to expand his initiative and consider new communication levers to publicize Les Jeunes Prodiges, his writing program from the publishing house Du sable et des cailloux.

Marion Curtile grew up in a family where culture is not everywhere, but where the taste of reading was passed on to him by his grandmother. “We shared this passion for books, he remembers. I read everything, especially the classics, which I loved. »

At the age of 17, he arrived in Paris and followed a course at Science-Po, where he discovered a different way of approaching literature through higher education.

I had an inferiority complex. I spent two years trying to catch up with what I thought was backwardness until I finally realized that I just had a different form of culture.

Marion Curtile

The future editor learns from it a taste of effort and a strong spirit of synthesis. After several years of buying textiles for a sports and leisure brand, the young woman took advantage of her maternity leave to put to paper the idea of ​​a book that had been close to her heart for a long time. The King, the Just and the Mighty.“The novel tells the story of a student who creates crafts to learn about unforeseen events in today’s life, all programmed, no surprises. »

Life is in for a big surprise for Marion, who in 2018 gives birth to a seriously ill and disabled little girl. Forced to stay at home to look after her child, the young mother sets up her own publishing house and writes a series of books. entitled The Adventures of Piwi Heart!which tenderly and sincerely narrates the everyday life of the disease. “We wanted to record what we felt in the moment before time rewrote it. We release one album a year. Evidence both hot and over time. »

Break the clichés and encourage passion

It was also around this time that she started writing workshops with her older children and several neighbors. A novel appears in a year, convinced that this young man has a deep desire to tell stories. “My daughter wrote her own book at the age of 11. I contacted the publishers to see if they were interested, but they didn’t accept minors. So I edited it myself and told myself that other passionate and talented young people must face this same age barrier. »

Marion then talks about her project at school and at her neighborhood bookstore. Today, he accompanies dozens of young people who write novels (Les Jeunes Prodiges) and younger children who write stories with several hands (Co-Scriptum). A way to break down teen clichés and encourage passion against the current of this ultra-connected generation.

They live in a universe of images, noises and short time. Writing a book involves words, silence, and a long, long time. They feel out of place with the world they live in, and being with others who love the same things they do makes them feel less alone.

Marion Curtile

Thanks to Maison Chaumet’s Prix Echo Culture Awards, Marion Curtille intends to take the young prodigies even further. “They are the pioneers of a whole body of literature that has yet to be invented. We would like to open a writing school adapted to everyone’s needs, to offer a real meeting place to all young people who want to try the experience. Writing a book is long and hard, but there is no greater joy than achieving your dreams. »

_{Four books of the “Young Prodigies” collection will be published this June.}

_{Sounding tilepeach (16, 2:^e novel) Diary of the Onirus ClanFlavi Orleft (16 years old, 1^eh novel) Chronicles of Ephelia (1). grimoire of spellsRêv’Plum (age 17, 1^eh novel) and Leo Wixtair (3). fightScard 21 (14 years old, 3:^e novel).}