Professor of African literature at the University of Chicago, Khalid Lyamlahy is also a literary critic and novelist. This talented author made a name for himself in 2015 when he published his first work of fiction, A Foreign Romance, dealing with the themes of migration and exile. The drowning by suicide of a young Gambian in the Grand Canal of Venice in 2017 is the starting point of his second novel, published this year. Evocation of a memorial in Venice is a modern novel that combines poetry, questions about writing and stories of the trajectories of African migrants.
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Literature: in the footsteps of the castaway of Venice, with the Moroccan Khalid Lyamlahy
