Conference with Hervé Le Tellier
On Wednesday, March 4, at 2 p.m., the french author, Hervé le Tellier, winner of the Goncourt-price 2020 for his novel “L´Anomalie”, will give a lecture about artificial intelligence at the University of Copenhagen.
Organized by L´Institut français du Danemark” and the embassy of Luxembourg in collaboration with the group of francophone ambassadors and the University of Copenhagen.
The event will open the Francophone Month that is dedicated this year to the topic of artificial intelligence.
The educated mathematician, Hervé Le Tellier, has been a member of l´OuLiPo since 1992. A famous literary group that was co-founded in 1960 by the author and poet Raymond Queneau who proposed to modernize the expression through wordplay based on the principle of limitation (one remember the novel “La Disparition” that was written in 1969 by Georges Pérec, where the letter “e” didn´t appear a single time).
Le Tellier is an author of several books that is characterized by untraditional and humoristic style. He wrote three articles in 2023 about artificial intelligence for the newspaper Le Monde, and he even competed against AI recently in a writing competition.
During his lecture at the university, Hervé Le Tellier will go back to several topics he has interested him for several years, namely artificiel intelligence and its creative potential as well as the more general relationship between science and literature.
(c) Francesca Mantovani - Editions Gallimard
