‘Dernières Nouvelles du Cosmos - Julie Bertuccelli’

Despite being nearly 30, Hélène still looks like a teenager. She writes powerful texts with a caustic humour and is, as she says herself, part of a "miscalibrated batch that doesn't fit in anywhere." A visionary author, her poetry speaks to us of her world and ours. She works with a director who is adapting her work for the theatre and has discussions with a mathematician. Yet Hélène cannot speak or hold a pen and has never learned to read or write. She was 20 years old when her mother discovered that she could communicate by arranging laminated letters on a sheet of paper. This is one of the many mysteries of a woman who calls herself Babouillec.