Mazarine Pingeot, Aurelie Levy. get to know the authors of the new literary program “Les collections Madame Figaro”.

Madame Figaro introduces a new format for an exchange between authors and readers to tell and share literature. Writers, actors, directors and personalities come together around a theme to inspire their love for books, the positive things they inspire in each of us.

Readings, conversations, exchanges with the public. Madame Figaro’s collections are year-round gatherings that follow literary highlights. A cycle of 4 chapters, embodied and animated by the journalists of the editorial team, who receive prestigious guests, the complicity of the house of Chanel.

First chapter. 20 years of Madame Figaro Heroine Grand Prix

twenty years since Madame Figaro celebrates the heroines of French and foreign literature through its literary prize, which honors books with unique female protagonists. In the first chapter of the Madame Figaro collection, meet two of the winners of the Madame Figaro Heroine Grand Prize, writers Aurélie Levy and Mazarine Pingeot. Two literate women came together to discuss their vision of literature and what it represents to them. Readers will be invited to question the resonance of these words, which in books upset us, change our vision of the world, make us think, dream, and escape.

Mazarin Pinjo’s first novel, published in 1998, was called Quite Natural The first novelfollowed by My lips are sealed, a highly autobiographical story. Since then, the author has continued to observe the world with sharpness and elegance. As in his latest book Living without, the philosophy of absence, where he analyzes our consumer society, which is so eager for “without”; sugar free, gluten free, dye free, but with books. Mazarin Pinjo received the Grand Prix de l’Héroine award in 2005 in the autobiography category.

Her partner, Aurélie Levy, winner of the 2022 Madame Figaro Heroine Grand Prize in the Comics/Graphic Novel category, told the story of the fate of an extraordinary woman fighting in a man’s world; Queenie, Godmother of Harlem. Author, film and comics screenwriter, director Aurélie Levy is equally at ease in French, English and Japanese. Cultivating a passion for Hollywood, he made documentaries about such legendary couples as John Cassavetes/Gena Rowlands and Vivien Leigh/Laurence Olivier. Another passion: other people and all arts. Proof with his Courage Has No Age podcast, interviews with Thierry Marx, David Douillet and La Grande Sophie.

Try this first date at Figaro

Come and attend an hour-long on-set discussion with our Madame Figaro Heroine Grand Prize winners. A unique encounter, a suspended and intimate moment between readings, discussions and memories, hosted by Joseph Ghosn, Deputy Editor-in-Chief, and Bernard Babkin, Cultural Journalist of Madame Figaro. The meeting takes place on June 20, in the hall of Jean d’Ormesson Figaro, from 18:00. The literary exchange will be followed by a cocktail to end this first meeting in a warm atmosphere rich in conversation.

40 places are available for live participation in this match to be held on June 20. To be selected, simply answer the questionnaire below: