Théo Casciani

Théo Casciani is an author. Retina, his first novel, was published by Éditions P.O.L in 2019 and will be out in English and Polish in 2026 on HELA Press. His fictions, translated into different languages and awarded several prizes, have been presented through multiple forms in France and abroad, His last novel, Insula, was published by P.O.L in January 2026. The title is first and foremost the name of a new kind of clandestine augmented reality game: users simply ingest an illegal, mind-altering pill to access a simulation. But it is also a floating part of the brain taken over by disease; an island in one’s head. The text brings together multiple eras, territories, and identities, weaving them into a single story that navigates between testimony and fantasy, the intimate and the political. Dystopia, love story, tale of mourning and ghosts, investigation and nightmare, Insula is above all a portal between several dimensions: the true and the false, the real and the digital, life and death.