Catherine Rey

[4] Continuing her exploration of the dark and sordid side of humanity, she published Les jours heureux and Eloge de l'oubli over the next two years.

In September 2010, she published Les extraordinaires aventures de John Lofty Oakes, a novel that retraces the heroic quest of a man of small size but possessing the gift of crying tears of gold in the style of a philosophical tale and an epic.

Being the object of all desires for fortune that flows from his eyes, this Tom Thumb embarks on an extraordinary journey that takes him from Guildford, Western Australia, where he was born, to Panaji, a city on the West coast of India, passing through Fiji, before finally returning to his homeland.

In The Sydney Morning Herald, awarded author and critic Steven Carroll described it as a "moving, deeply thoughtful meditation on youth, ageing and death.

[8] Created in Cayenne under the title of Lucy, the play will tour the region (in Guyana, Suriname and Brazil) and Guadeloupe, before being presented in 2011 at the Chapel of the Word Incarnate as part of the Festival off of Avignon.