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The ‘Ville Rose’ is turning black! The International Festival of Crime and Noir Literature – your unmissable literary event to kick off the new season – is back! Once again this year, a dynamic duo will be patronising this edition: Valentine Imhof, a French author, and Abir Mukherjee, a British author.

They’ll be joined by around forty authors from France and abroad. To build the suspense, let’s mention Antoine Albertini, Frédéric Andréi, Anne-Gaëlle Balpe, Patrick Bard, Mathile Beaussault, Gwenaël Bulteau, Patrick Caujolle, Manu Causse, Catherine Cooper, Didier Daeninckx, Susana Fortes … and many more……

As every year, the ‘hors-les-murs’ festival kicks things off with a week of literary events. Across more than 70 venues in the Occitanie region, crime fiction takes centre stage in all its forms: screenings of noir short films in partnership with Séquence Court Métrage, events at the Municipal Archives, readings, writing workshops, and events at over a hundred media centres, public libraries, bookshops and works councils. Authors will also be meeting young readers in schools across the Occitanie region, from primary schools right through to universities.

Visit the festival website to view the programme.