Tag: literary
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…
Do you know Sarah Rivens? The secrets of a literary phenomenon
She has an Anglo-Saxon-sounding pseudonym that should be pronounced by clicking the final “s”, but she is Algerian. She lives on the other side of the Mediterranean, but is a…
Best literary sales: it’s on the move!
It was predictable: the literary returns do not wait for ages to produce their first effects, so, after four short days of sale, some of the books released on January…
Best literary sales: 2022, end clap!
Week 52! Here we are, we are at this last week of sales of the year 2022. The bets are cast… But as the bookstore never stops, we are already…