Cédric Duroux was born in 1981. His studies in English led him to focus on the works of Robert McLiam Wilson (Eureka Street) and Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City). He joined the Villa Gillet team in 2005 (Lyon, France), where he became the programming director until 2016 when he founded October Octopus, a cultural programming agency specializing in the development of intellectual debates and literature. The agency conceives programs and produces festivals, conferences, seminars, and educational programs. Among its major projects, October Octopus co-organized the “À l’École de l’Anthropocène” festival with the École urbaine de Lyon and Cité Anthropocène (since 2018), provides programming consultancy and press relations for the CCCB in Barcelona, Spain (since 2018), and curates the “fiction, non-fiction, and poetry” sessions for the Paris Book Festival in partnership with “et tuttiquanti…” (since 2024). The agency also coordinated “Cultures d’Avenir” with the OFAJ, Centre Pompidou, La Gaîté Lyrique, HKW (Berlin), and CCCB (2024), and co-organizes the “AgorAkademi” seminar by Nilüfer Göle with Columbia University in Paris (since 2023). He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Wartists, Inc. (DBA ArtLords).
He published a novel, Les Animaux sentimentaux (Buchet Chastel, 2016), and his next novel is set to be released by Actes Sud editions in 2026 (in France).
