Violaine Bérot, the Writer Who Left Artificial Intelligence to Raise Goats: “I Now Observe Humans with Herd Eyes”

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Violaine Bérot (Bagnères-de-Bigorre, 58) is used to living on the edge. “I’m always at the extremes, that’s my character,” the French novelist gives a wide smile and a lively look. At the age of 30 she abandoned her work as an artificial intelligence researcher to devote herself to goat grazing. And then, after 40, she left the herd to give herself completely to her first passion: writing. In recent decades she has resided in lost places in the …