Colette Mart is deputy mayor of the city of Luxembourg since 2011. She is responsible for educational issues, schools and childcare institutions, as well as for equality for men and women. She is engaging for the multicultural issues of the city of Luxembourg, and for the needs of children coming from 160 different nationalities.
Colette Mart was born in Luxembourg in 1955. She grew up in the industrial South of Luxembourg. She studied journalism and public relations at the Free University in Brussels, followed by a specialization in European Studies. For 35 years, she has been working as a journalist, first in Brussels (Belgium), later in Heidelberg (Germany) and since 1984 in Luxembourg.
Her journalistic work focuses on women issues, war traumatism in Luxembourg families related to Word War II, national and local politics, as well as on local Luxembourg culture and literature.
As an editorialist for the daily newspaper “Lëtzebuerger Journal”, she comments on political and social events and analyses social developments, often from a psychological point of view.
Colette Mart has been a member of the City council of the capital of Luxembourg since 1999. In this function, she has become committed to the issues of socially disadvantaged children, equal chances for all children at school, economic issues of concern to the city of Luxembourg and local culture.
Between 2004 and 2011, Colette Mart was the president of the Luxembourg Writers’ association.
She has published five books with short stories, love poems and philosophical articles on human relations and social issues.
She was the official representative of the Luxembourgish Literature at the European Book Festival in Moscow in June 2009, and was also invited to international poetry festivals in Romania, Tchech Republic and Greece.
In 2010, she has been nominated for the Grand European Poetry Prize in Romania. In 2011, she got e journalist price from the Luxemburgish government for the best article published on poverty and social exclusion.
In 2011 also, she got an International Prize for Excellency in Poetry at the World Poet Congress in Greece.