Pia Petersen

dans la presse
Une écrivaine dans la ville

Ni avec toi, ni sans toi

Marseille par Pia Petersen

Photos de Bertrand Desprez

Insolence et nonchalance
Pourquoi il écrivent en français ?
Pays: Danemark - Profession: romancière
Un écrivain en Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur
Sa vie est un roman
Pia Petersen, celle qui n'aime pas les virgules

Pia PETERSEN was seven when she discovered she was a writer. She could have been born in the United States, India, France, or Haiti, but she was born in Denmark. She understands nationality as a coincidence, an imposed category, and a limit to her diversity. Like Montaigne, she is global and considers herself an offshore writer. After several escape attempts, she went to Greece, then moved to France and learned French by herself by reading Stendhal’s Red and Black. With her first new words in French, she applied to the Sorbonne to study philosophy where, to her surprise, she was accepted. She became the writer she was, met Hubert Nyssen, the founder of Actes Sud, who published her as a French writer. Her work focuses on the global world and she goes where her novels take her. In 2014, she received the Award for the Influence of the French Language and Literature from the French Academy Académie française for her entire work. She has 11 novels published by prestigious French publishing houses (Actes Sud, Plon, Robert Laffont), at least 12 short stories in collections, and she writes for several magazines (l’Atelier du roman, la revue Intranquîllités).