Caroline Fourgeaud-Laville

Holding a doctorate in literature from Université Paris IV–Sorbonne and a member of Sorbonne Université’s Centre for Research in Comparative Literature, Caroline Fourgeaud-Laville began her career in teaching, first comparative literature at the École Estienne, then French literature at the Sorbonne’s Cours de civilisation française, before turning to cultural diplomacy.

Since 2002, she has regularly published texts that cross genres, blending narrative, essay, art criticism, prefaces, and articles, while giving a central place to dialogue between the arts. Her attachment to Greece, where she lived for five years, and her discovery of Ancient Greek as a child have deeply shaped her writing, her thinking, and her commitments.

A 2004 laureate of the Missions Stendhal, awarded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she has been a member of the Société des Gens de Lettres since 2012. In 2018, she founded the association Eurêka to promote the teaching of Ancient Greek in primary schools. She is the author of the essay Humanités (Éditions de l’Observatoire).