The French Marie Vingtras, at Filba: “Since I was a child I wanted to write, it took me 40 years to achieve it”

The author published her first novel in 2021, after four decades of waiting and nine editorial rejections. Ventisca and Las almas feroces established her with stories that explore intimate and social conflicts. At Filba 2026, she explained why she does not consider the detective genre to be the center of her literature.