Guillaume Basset

writer

Guillaume Basset is a French writer who lives in Prague. He is currently the programme director of the international book fair and literary festival Book World Prague. In the past he was the deputy director of the Prague Writers’ Festival and worked for the Alliance Française de Lyon. He also gained experience in the field while organising a literary festival in Hong Kong. He has published poems in the French magazines Mercure liquide, Verso, Provisoire, and Zone. His first work, The Fire of Your Closeness (Oheň tvých blízkostí, 2017), was published bilingually in Czech and the original French by the publishing house Dauphin.