Paloma Hermina HIDALGO, born in 1988 in France, stands out as a voice that is both radical and delicate on the contemporary literary scene. Trained at the École Normale Supérieure (Ulm-Paris), HEC Paris, and Cambridge, she was noticed early on by Michel Deguy. An art and literary critic since the age of eighteen, she has collaborated with prestigious institutions such as Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, Esprit, Europe 1, and France Culture. A poet, playwright, novelist, actress, and dancer, she constantly breaks down genre barriers. Her collection Cristina (2020, reissued 2023) was hailed as a "masterpiece of contemporary poetry," followed by Rien, le ciel peut-être (2023), which was received by Marianne magazine as a work of "untimely genius." Her first novel, Matériau Maman (2024), powerfully explores trauma, madness, and family ties. Her dense and sensitive work delves into the territories of childhood, the body, and maternal memory—often painful—with a baroque and mystical language, permeated by the unspeakable. In 2024, she refused the Prix Méditerranée Poésie for political reasons related to the prize's sponsors.
Paloma Hermina Hidalgo embodies that rare writer-artist, capable at the age of twenty of intervening on the most diverse stages—critical, poetic, theatrical—and of profoundly moving audiences with a single breath. Her work, both brutal and luminous, deserves the label "electric."
Poetry
Cristina, Le Réalgar, 80 pp., 2020, under the pseudonym Caloniz Herminia, reissued in 2023 under the name Paloma Hermine Hidalgo, preface by Alain Borer
Nothing, the Sky Perhaps, Sans escale, 100 pp., 2023, under the name Paloma Hermine Hidalgo, preface by Dominique Sampiero
Fairy Tale, My Loss, 64 pp., Corlevour, 2025
In LAZZI, Paloma Hermina Hidalgo conjures a flamboyant language, at once humorous and cruel. Between winged mandrakes, stellar chewing gum, and carnal visions, her poem unfolds like a musical score—Presto, Adagio, Larghetto—expressing the loss of enchantments and the urgency of dreams. Bernard Alligand responds with luminous textures, transparencies, and bursts of color. From their dialogue emerges a work where dreams collide with reality, where poetry and painting together invent a space of freedom, provocation, and beauty.
Unpublished handwritten poem by Paloma Hermina Hidalgo accompanied by paintings by Bernard Alligand. Original edition numbered 1/7 to 7/7. Each copy is signed in the colophon by the author and the artist. Paris - Sens. Leporello in folded format (F): 18 x 18 cm, composed of 16 panels + cover. Moulin du Gué 270 g paper. Presentation: orange cloth-covered box.
List price including VAT: €2,000
