Exclusively at Alliance Française de Singapour, Julie Moulin unveils her latest book
"L'insulation, nouvelles de Singapour", scheduled for launch on 22 January 2026.

Presentation at 4pm, moderated by Corinne Rousset, followed by book signing
Book sale by our partner Akaroa onsite on event day

The 15 stories in this collection were conceived in Singapore, where Julie Moulin settled in August 2020. They trace experiences of displacement, connection and transformation, as the island itself is reshaped through her writing.

These pages bring together robots who fall in love and men who mistake themselves for parrots; women obsessed with humidity and others who push back the boundaries of reality. A solitary monkey, a ravenous ghost, a dreaming table, and a shipwrecked child drift through these tales. News events mutate into parasites, while discarded objects carry away their hidden secrets.

Here, the comic brushes against the unsettling, the ordinary against the uncanny, echoing the strangeness of anything that unsettles us and shifts our point of view.
Though inspired by Singapore, these stories are not confined to it. Above all, they spring from the author's imagination and offer a quiet, oblique reflection on our time.

About the author

Julie Moulin was born in Paris in 1979. She is the author of two novels published by Alma Editeur, Jupe et pantalon (2016) and Domovoï (2019).

In August 2020, she moved to Singapore, where she continues her writing work and hosts the podcast Marcher entre les lignes. Between 2021 and 2024, she wrote a collection of short stories gathered under the title L'insulation, nouvelles de Singapour, to be published on 22 January 2026 by Editions Thierry Marchaisse. One of these stories, "The Invasion", was first published in English in January 2025 in the Singaporean literary journal QRLS.

Julie Moulin also leads creative writing workshops.