Tag: Books
Andreï Makine, Véronique Ovaldé and Raphaël Haroche, books not to be missed
The Old Calendar of a Love By Andrei Makine. Grasset, 198 pages, €19.50. The rating of L’Express: 3/5 (in bookstores on January 11) If Andreï Makine abandons the Siberia of…
Dany Laferrière: “The African-American was not born in Africa, he may never even have been there”
There are delicate subjects, such as racism, an area where “a simple word can explode in your face like a grenade”. The Canadian-Haitian academician Dany Laferrière knows this well, so…
Portugal between past greatness and duty to remember
/ Podcasts / international book In 2024, Portugal will celebrate 50 years of the Carnation Revolution, which overthrew the authoritarian Salazarist regime and ushered the country into a democratic era.…
Best-selling novelist Françoise Bourdin has died
The successful novelist Françoise Bourdin, one of the most read in France with more than 15 million books sold, died Sunday at the age of 70, announced this Monday, December…
Elena Gianini Belotti, Italian pioneer of gender and intersectionality
She is remembered for a single book, On the side of the little girls, which was also his first, published in France in 1974 by Éditions des femmes, which printed…
Death of French novelist Françoise Bourdin at the age of 70
Best-selling novelist Françoise Bourdin, one of the most widely read authors in France with more than 15 million books sold, died on Sunday December 25. Françoise Bourdin, born in 1952…
Literacy Lambton gives away 3,787 books this Christmas
A project providing presents of books for children and youth in the Sarnia area at Christmas had another successful year. Literacy Lambton’s 2022 Give-a-Book campaign was able to deliver 3,787…
“Afghans and flowers”, by Oriane Zerah
/ Podcasts / international book This week, our international book takes us to Afghanistan… Clea Broadhurst spoke with Oriane Zerah, author Afghans and flowers, who has lived in the country…
Bob Dylan and the dedication affair: an Anglo-Saxon drift
Frankly, British and American writers have morals that are beyond us, sometimes. Their conception of dedication remains foreign to our literary milieu. It is generally agreed that this ritual, as…
Comics, mangas, novels… The best sales of books before Christmas
Make no mistake, in these times of holidays and gifts, graphic arts take precedence on the shelves of bookstores. Thus the sixth volume of The Arab of the future (Allary…