Daughter of a Sicilian and a Corsican, Belinda Cannone taught for nine years at the University of Corsica-Pascal-Paoli in Corte. As a novelist and essayist, she has published several works, including « Narrations de la vie intérieure » (PUF, 2001) and « Écrire en Corse » (with Jacques Fusina, Klincksieck, 2010).