Born in Belgrade, Sonia Ristić grew up between the former Yugoslavia and Africa, and has lived in Paris since 1991. A woman of the theater, a woman of letters, she is the author of several novels including “flowers in the wind» (2018 Hors-Competition prize) until today “Triptych in D minor» published by Intervalles. Sonia Ristić is also at the initiative of the collection “Girls from the East, women from the West», where she participates with seven other authors in the collective published under the direction of Elisabeth Lesne.
“Belgrade, 1970s. Milena, a young screenwriter, begins an epistolary relationship with Sam, one of the two Americans she met during a stay in Paris.
Berlin, 1930s. Clara, the only daughter of a couple of Jewish lawyers and Lily, older sister of a working-class family, meet and try to love each other.
France, 2020. In full confinement, a bereaved Parisian novelist receives a canteen filled with Milena’s letters.
Sonia Ristić, through her talent as a storyteller, ties for the reader the translucent links that span the centuries. Links of love, links of madness, links of fierce freedom, links of writing or creation.
In this room of one’s own modern, it weaves a thread between these women driven by their independence, their creativity and their proud determination to live a love that is at the height of their freedom.” (Presentation of Intervals editions)
“Many of us come from that world and write in French. What is obvious in these writings is the story of happy childhoods, contrary to what the Kundera generation carried. We find a lot of facetiousness, humor, tenderness and joy in our memories. Weaving together a patchwork opens up other reading grids, political and aesthetic, allows us to look at other things, and makes our memories a rich literary breeding ground , less binary. These stories are as many entries on the feminist, identity and militant questions that agitate the country where we have chosen to live.” Sonia Ristic for the Intervals editions.