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Frictions is about journalists, writers and podcast producers, based in France and abroad, with unique background like the stories they tell us.

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Marius Tisné

Marius Tisné is a writer and currently a member of the Creative Writing Master’s program at Paris 8. Through fantastic short stories, he explores the relationship to memory, the past, and the traces—material or otherwise—left behind by people as they pass through.


Crédit photo : Céline Nammour

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Paul Crassous

Paul Crassous is a Master’s student in Creative Writing at Paris 8. In his first novel, currently in progress, he examines memory and family fractures

Photo credit: Matthieu Crassous

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Margaux Lavêvre and Glenn Pouliquen

Margaux and Glenn both studied in the field of applied arts — she at Central Saint Martins in London in fashion, he at the École du Paysage in Versailles. Their paths converge in a shared transdisciplinary approach. Alongside their work as a textile designer and a landscape architect, they are writing their first novel as part of the Creative Writing Master’s program at Paris 8.

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Maya Vidon-White

Maya Vidon-White is a photojournalist based in France, working for the American press. She spent fifteen years abroad covering conflicts in the Middle East, Africa, and Southeast Asia. Back in her hometown, she now turns through this podcast to a more intimate struggle: insomnia

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Mona Kawkaba

Currently studying creative writing at Paris 8, Mona comes from the world of social and solidarity economy. Her work probes the body and language, approached both as material realities and as social constructs.

Photo credit : Karima Amanar

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Hensli Rahn Solórzano

Venezuela, 1982. He is a fiction writer. He has published the collection of short stories Dinero fácil (Libros del Fuego, 2014) and the book of non-fiction Crónicamente Caracas (FCU, 2008). In 2016 he was a writer-in-residence at the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa. In 2024 he was a guest writer to the festival Leap Off Page, in Bulgaria. His short pieces have won awards in the USA and Venezuela. His texts appear in anthologies published in Argentina, Uruguay and Venezuela. Among other media he has collaborated in Frictions, Latin American Literature Today,  Zeit Online, and Papel Literario. Two of his short-stories were audio recorded in the collection The Palabra Archive, Library of Congress, USA. Selections of his work have been translated into English, German and Bulgarian. He lives in Berlin with his family

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Claudio Antonio Quiroga Broggi

Claudia Antonio Quiroga Broggi was born and grew up in Villa Mercedes, in the province of San Luis in Argentina. He has a degree in Engineering and Electronics and has pursued a career in those fields.

Ten of his sonnets are at the Museum of Poetry of Carolina in San Luis and two of his stories were published by the "San Luis Libro Program". He is about to publish a historical novel which will be available in Argentina.

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Vivian Lofiego

Vivian Lofiego is a Franco-Argentinian writer and translator. She lives in Buenos Aires. Latest publications: Le Sang des papillons. Ed. JCLattès (novel). La Vie secrète. Os de seiche (poetry). Denis Salas' Albert Camus : la juste révolte. Ed. Jusbaires (translation).

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Adil Fradin

After completing a degree in cinema at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, Adil Fradin moved between the audiovisual world and literature. His writing is mainly inspired by music and film. Currently studying for a master's in creative writing at Paris 8, he also works in a bookshop in the Marais district.

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