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About the author — Maryam Fathollahi
Maryam Fathollahi is a poet and novelist.
Born in Tehran, she writes across languages and forms, exploring poetry, narrative, and image as interconnected territories of sensitivity.
Her writing, deeply poetic, dwells in the silent zones of intimacy: memory, solitude, love, wounds, and comfort. She pays particular attention to feminine emotions and to the invisible bonds that connect human beings.
Through her books, films, and visual creations, Maryam Fathollahi seeks a language that is both simple and inhabited, a language capable of expressing what usually remains unspoken. Her work follows a resolutely sensitive and universal path, where gentleness never excludes depth.
Where Cats Find Shelter fully embodies this approach: a quiet poetic fiction in which the gaze of two cats accompanies the intimate relationship between a mother and her daughter, revealing what unfolds within the most discreet gestures.
Works at Maison Ynoma
Where Cats Find Shelter (Coming 2026)
About the author —John Elongo
John Elongo writes from places of silence.
His restrained and attentive prose lingers on tired bodies, familial absences, and ordinary gestures heavy with memory.
Trained in law, he approaches language with precision and rigor: every word matters, every sentence carries weight. This discipline shapes a contained style in which emotion arises from accuracy rather than effect.
In Des jours sans, he explores childhood confronted with loss, the fragility of human bonds, and imperfect love that endures despite everything. An intimate, quiet, and deeply reflective writing that moves forward without promises of repair, but with constant attention to what remains.
Works at Maison Ynoma
Des Jours Sans (Coming 2026)
About the author — Jean Talabot
Jean Talabot writes at the threshold between journalism and literature.
A Paris-based journalist, he carries into his fiction a sharp eye for detail, a gift for listening, and an instinct for measured distance — yet once the writing takes hold, reportage gives way to something more intimate.
In Les Seuls-à-table, he turns his gaze toward ordinary solitude — the kind that settles in cafés, dining cars, and overlit buffet rooms — assembling a gallery of lives glimpsed in passing.
His prose is precise and tactile, shaped by quiet irony and restrained melancholy, attentive to the smallest gestures. He does not judge. He observes — and trusts the reader to draw their own conclusions.
Works at Maison Ynoma
Les Seuls à Table (Coming 2026)