Tag: In person(s)
Benjamin Epps: The great disillusion for inspiration
“I have voices in my head telling me to hold on, to live” – Excerpt from the title Live by Benjamin Epps. The young rapper with a clear voice, a…
Raphaël Haddad: inclusive writing for all!
” The evidence is that the world is mixed and that it must be accounted for in the language “. Inclusive writing is regularly controversial and its use raises many…
Amos Gitai invites Micha Lescot to his “House”
“The Israeli-Palestinian conflict continues because there is no acceptance of the other. It takes the recognition of the other to appease the conflict. Art, theatre, cinema, literature do not change…
Garance Meillon: resisting the language of the enemy
“Love stories are lived a lot through words. You have to choose them carefully » In his novel The language of the enemy, which looks like a modern fable, Garance…
Yvette Balana and Antoinette Tidjani Alou at the Geneva Book Fair
Meeting with two authors whose novels resonate around a theme, that of departure and return. How to leave? And then how do you get home? How to come back, once…
Save regional languages with Michel Feltin-Palas
/ Podcasts / In person(s) “A language is a dialect with an army and a navy”Max Weinreinch, linguist. It is with this edifying quote that Michel Feltin-Palas’ book opens, a…
Tahar Ben Jelloun: his Morocco is written in French
In this Francophonie week, the Franco-Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun recounts his relationship to the French language, and presents his new novel, Casablanca lovers. “It is with the French language…
A history of the Francophonie with Thi Hoai Trang Phan-Labays
/ Podcasts / In person(s) March 20 is International Francophonie Day. The opportunity to return to the birth of the term “Francophonie”, its evolution over fifty years, and to question…
Crossing borders with poets Sophie Nauleau and Tanella Boni
” There terra incognita inside me had sacralized space and distances to the detriment of time and events. The abscissa and the ordinate of the days have never been, I…
The Poetic Paradise of Gustave Roud by Claire Jaquier
“How beautiful this morning, the harvest beginning! Barely taken, the gray and pink road | between rows of shining pear trees is peopled with mowers. One sings, the other whistles,…