My real name is ÉlisabethAdèle Yon’s first novel was distinguished from the Prize for the first novel Régine-Deforges on Saturday June 21, 2025. The young author was given this prize from Camille Deforges, daughter of Régine Deforges, when launching the 35e Edition of the Montmorillon Book Festival. Three other authors were in the running and present: Rim Battal (I will look in the eyes), Bénédicte Dupré la Tour (Promised land) and Bérénice Pichat (The little good).
“Our mother Régine Deforges could have published these first four novels”, said Camille Deforges, alongside her brother Franck Spengler and his sister Léa Wiazemsky. The award of this award, for its 10e Edition, took place for the first time in Montmorillon, a choice wanted by the children of Régine Deforges.
The four finalists of the Prix Régine-Deforges 2025 at the Montmorillon book festival on June 21, 2025: Adèle Yon, Bérénice Pichat, Rim Battal and Bénédicte Dupré la Tour.
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“Madness is an idea that I deconstruct”
In My real name is ÉlisabethAdèle Yon recounts the fear of a researcher to become crazy like her grandmother Elisabeth, diagnosed with schizophrenic in the 1950s, and who conducted a survey on this family past. His novel was a real success in bookstores, with more than 50,000 sales since its release in February 2025.
“My book was supported by the independent booksellers, who advised it. Word-to-watch has worked. I feel this craze, it is a book that speaks to many people. Madness is a universal problem ”, tells Adèle Yon who, at the start, worked a thesis on the subject. “I am no longer afraid of being crazy, it’s an idea that I deconstruct”she says. In this year of mental health in France, she says he is “Angry on what my grandmother has suffered and what exists today” Regarding the management of mental illnesses. “This subject is no longer taboo”she observes, in reference in particular to the coming out Journalist Nicolas Demorand on his bipolarity.
Guests of honor
The book Festival welcomes around forty authors including two guests of honor, Emmanuel Ruben and Isabelle Simler (children’s literature). “The theme of the festival on landscapes echoes my work on the living”, Appreciates Isabelle Simler, having met the elementary schoolchildren in the workshop.
Emmanuel Ruben guest of honor at the 2025 book festival.
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Emmanuel Ruben slides, in the blink of an eye“Having immediately accepted the invitation without doubt because of the blue bicycle”. The novelist publishes The use of Japan Illustrated account with his hand of his four -month bicycle journey in this country. “Montmorillon is also near a nuclear power plant. I grew up next to a power plant. I am concerned about all these questions ”he says. The author refers to that of Creys-Malville, arrested in 1998 and since in dismantling, which has fueled his anticipation novel Malville.
The public came on Saturday morning to meet the authors despite a scorching time.
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Sunday June 22, place Leclerc in Montmorillon, free. Stroll “On the footsteps of Rossignol” (9:30 am, Tourist Office). Literary meetings: “Read Europe” with Katharina Loix Van Hooff (10 a.m., town hall); “A weight on the shoulders” with Ariane Bois (10:45 am); “Conquest of spaces” with Bénédicte Dupré la Tour and Alexandre Lasheras (11:15 am); “The resonance of the island” with Estelle Rocchitelli and Anne-Solange Muis (14); “The river in the skin” with Eddy L. Harris and Jean-Louis Michelot (2:45 pm); “Landscape immersions” with Blandine Giambasi and Anouck Lejczyk (3:30 p.m.); “The formidable story of short and long editions” with Jean Poderos (4 p.m.). Master Class “The real, the fantastic and the wonderful” with Isabelle Simler (11 a.m., MJC). Musical reading: “The use of Japan” with Emmanuel Ruben (12 p.m., town hall). Youth Workshop: “These animals not stupid to draw” (12 p.m.) with Émilie Vanvolsem; “The pierced book” with Juliette Binet (2 p.m.). Designed and musical conference “In the Douanier Rousseau workshop” with Mathieu Siam and Thibault Lambert (3 p.m., MJC). Creative workshop: calligraphy and illustration with Sylvie Edeline (5.30 p.m., Cinema Le Majestic). Cinema: “Amélie and the metaphysics of tubes” (7 pm, Cinema Le Majestic).
