Join us at the Book World Prague 2025 for a discussion with writer and director Ruth Zylberman, who will be talking about her novel 209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris Xe: Autobiographie d’un immeuble (Points, 2021), of which the Czech translation was published by Editions Maraton in 2024. Ruth Zylberman’s narrative brings to life the stories of those who disappeared and those who survived, children and adults, collaborators and resistance fighters, young girls in love and women with sulphurous reputations, people of different nationalities whose destinies were brought together by the same Parisian address. The discussion will be followed by a book signing.

Ruth Zylberman, a French director and writer, has made several documentaries and published her first novel, La Direction de l’absent, in 2015. Her work reflects a deep interest in the history of Central Europe: her documentary Dissidents, les artisans de la liberté (2009) is devoted to Václav Havel, among others, while Le Procès – Prague 1952 (2021) traces the fate of three convicts: Rudolf Slánský, Artur London and Rudolf Margolius. In 2018, she directed the documentary Les Enfants du 209 rue Saint-Maur, Paris Xe, which served as the basis for her novel published in 2020. Both the film and the book have been enthusiastically received by audiences and specialists alike.