Tag: French language
Zadig Hamroune frees himself from his past in “The Barbarian Night”
“What matters most to me, both as a writer and as a social being, is presence in the world, more than being defined by a written, administrative, social identity or…
The Alfabètes write to rebuild themselves at the Maison de la Poésie with the Samu Social
“What we have the strongest is writing, which for me is my outlet on this sidewalk… Everything that happened with the Maison de la Poésie gives us a certain humanity.…
Theater: The language of Laurance Henry’s “first words”
” What is beautiful with children is the way they knit between reality and imagination. And the way they appropriate what they see to recreate a story. » Prime Words…
Iran told by writers: Naïri Nahapétian and Stéphanie Perez
Nairi Nahapetian was born into an Armenian family in Tehran. A journalist, she is also the author of several novels, for adults and children, including “Who killed Ayatollah Kanuni? (Liana…
In Switzerland: with the writer Peter Stamm and the bookstore “L’etage”
Meeting with Peter Stamm born in 1963 in Switzerland. Journalist, writer, he is the author of a dozen novels since “Agnès” (1998) crowned by the Rauriser Literaturpreis p. He currently…
In Némésis, Tiphaine Raffier transforms the work of Philip Roth into a fantastic dystopia
/ Podcasts / In person(s) “To adapt, you have to try to understand what is at stake, what we liked. And understand how, going through the incarnation, we will come…
For Pierre-Olivier Bannwarth, “tales are made to forge a relationship with one’s environment”
/ Podcasts / In person(s) “Stories, even tales, are made to weave a relationship with the environment around us. From the moment I know the story of the tree, the…
With “Enlève la nuit” Monique Proulx wishes to re-enchant the world
/ Podcasts / In person(s) “I intended to speak literally of someone coming into the world. I intended to put on new eyes to look at what we are currently…
Cyril Mokaiesh’s declaration in songs to Georges Moustaki
“What’s the point of talking about his time or what’s the point of sometimes undertaking things, I knew I wanted to say his words. » On the occasion of the…
Raphaël Confiant breathes new life into the rue Blomet ball
” The place has become a place of living together, of populations that should never have rubbed shoulders. » In his new novel The rue Blomet ball », Raphaël Confiant…