Myriam Watthee-Delmotte

Myriam Watthee-Delmotte, of the Royal Academy of Belgium, is Director of Research at the FNRS and Professor Emeritus at UCLouvain. Her research focuses on the effectiveness of literature. Some of her works include: Littérature et ritualité (Vossaert Prize), Dépasser la mort, l’agir de la littérature: Essai (Prix triennal of the Communauté française de Belgique), en 2025 La littérature, une réponse au désastre (finalist for the Grand Prize for Literary History) and a novel, Indemne. Où va Moby-Dick ? (Malesherbes Prize).