Júlia Kristeva

A Bulgarian writer, psychoanalyst, and professor emerita at the University of Paris Diderot-Paris 7, she is one of the most important intellectuals of our time, with her work on the construction of poetic language being a landmark in the formation of structuralism. In 2012, she was invited by Cardinal Gianfranco Ravasi to participate in a dialogue between believers and non-believers. She is the author of more than 30 works, translated into more than 15 languages, including Portuguese. She is a full member of the Paris Psychoanalytic Society and holds honorary doctorates from several universities in the United States, Canada, and Europe. A Commander of the Legion of Honor, Commander of the Order of Merit, and the first laureate of the Holberg Prize in 2004, she was also awarded the Hannah Arendt Prize in 2006 and the Vaclav Havel Prize in 2008, the year she founded the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women's Freedom.