Tag: literary
“Paths of writing” at the rendezvous of the literary season 2023
Literary re-entry obliges, this week, Paths of writing is combined in the plural. On the menu, a selection of four novels to evoke African production. A selection that is intended…
Literature: a less extensive but more open literary season
It is the symbol par excellence of the French cultural exception, the literary season which sees each year during this period hundreds of new novels surge in bookstores. This year,…
De Parade week 2: literary dance moves from the boy band
The Literaire Boyband is a writers’ collective with dance moves and consists of poet and theater maker Martin Rombouts, poet Wout Waanders (Buddingh’ Prize 2021), musician Laurens van de Linde…
Une Terre, Une Auteure: in Cameroon with Ernis, winner of the 2022 “Voix d’Afriques” literary prize
Born in Bafoussam in 1994 in Cameroon, Ernis, after studying Philosophy in Yaoundé, started writing. Poet, slammer and author, she won the third edition of the “Voix d’Afriques” literary prize…
Literary back to school: the studious summer of a member of the Goncourt Academy
This is the number of the Beast of the editorial Apocalypse. 321… Hear: the number of new French-language novels that will be waiting for you in bookstores from mid-August. But…
AI: literary translators, the next victims of algorithms?
Of all the professions that artificial intelligence (known as AI) is likely to kill, that of literary translator seems a priori to concern only a tiny particle within a microcosm.…
Roxanne Bouchard, the literary breath of the great outdoors of Quebec
Roxanne Bouchard teaches literature in Quebec. Author of numerous novels, short stories and plays, she has won several prestigious literary prizes. For the first time it was published in France,…
François Weyergans, or the planned obsolescence of the great literary prizes?
June 16, 2011: more than two years after his election, François Weyergans is finally received at the French Academy. He arrived at the Quai Conti ten minutes late – a…
Isabelle Boulay: Alain Bashung, “of the very high literary and musical aerobatics”
14 years after his death, Alain Bashung continues to occupy the musical landscape. Quebecer Isabelle Boulay, a great admirer of the artist, dedicates an album of 11 covers to him…
back to the 2023 literary festival at the Center Pompidou
From March 8 to 12, the annual literary festival Effractions was held at the Center Pompidou, devoted to the ferment of reality through the prism of contemporary fiction. About forty…