Marcel Moratal

Born in Fez in 1954, Marcel Moratal left Morocco at a very young age with his parents. The family first settled in the North of France for five years, then in the South, in Valence, where he spent his entire childhood and adolescence. After ten years as a construction worker, he went to Paris to study film and began writing for the theater. Six plays were produced, almost all of them produced by himself in Paris, at the Avignon Festival and other provincial cities. One of them was broadcast on France-Culture and Radio Suisse Romande. Now living in the Baronnies Provençales, he founded and has directed a small rural and resistance theater, Le Canard en Bois, in the family home since 1992. He has also led writing workshops for audiences in difficulty with the Greta de Montélimar.

Guillaume Beylard


Born in 1988 in Sèvres, Guillaume Beylard has been interested in drawing since a young age. Developing a growing interest in art over time, he has created three books based on his work, including his latest, Le Panthéon du Mielodrame, a collection of illustrated poems.

This somewhat strange title draws us into a singular and highly original universe, that of a dog. A learned dog? A stray dog? A dreaming dog? Perhaps all three. His daily life is not content with the ordinary. He invites the reader to share his wandering across the surface of the Earth. A geographical and mental wandering where the notion of territory confronts the crude appetite of the conquerors and dictators who marked the dark hours of humanity. This little dog likes to breathe in the air of the times while always walking forward, because all paths lead beyond the stars. From the heart of man to the heart of the universe. For him, everything is a pretext for reflection. In the solitude of his condition, he builds mental pyramids. Imaginary monuments that are for him so many ways to fill the void when there are no more answers to anything.