Report Article reserved for our subscribers Writers face prisoners: “We look at the prison world as the living look at the world of the dead: as long as we have not been confronted with it, it does not exist” From their meetings with their readers in prison, the novelists Delphine de Vigan, Brigitte Giraud, Leïla Slimani or Philippe Claudel recount an experience of high emotional intensity, from which they emerged transformed.