Tag: literary
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…
Best literary sales: the great return of yesterday’s bestsellers
It’s amazing, how readers fuse on “safe” values. Not content with acclaiming the winners of the autumn grand prizes (Giuliano da Empoli, 270,000 copies sold of Kremlin Magethe live fast…
Best literary sales: a market that is struggling to take off as Christmas approaches
One more effort, fellow readers. You only have three short weeks left to make authors, publishers and booksellers smile. As of December 4, the closing date of our weekly rankings,…
Caroline Laurent, anger, as a literary weapon
Caroline Laurent is Franco-Mauritian. After the success of her book co-written with Évelyne Pisier, And suddenly freedom (Les Escales, 2017) translated in many countries, she has published Shore of Wrath…
Beirut Books, a French-speaking literary festival in a country in the midst of a crisis
Writers of 18 mainly French-speaking nationalities will be the guests of Beirut Books, a French-speaking literary festival … A new itinerant literary meeting in the Lebanese capital … a ray…
2022 literary season: Africa-Caribbean-Black America (1)
Less rich than in previous years, this year’s literary season offers 490 new titles, including 345 French novels for 135 foreigners. The black world occupies a privileged place in this…
a literary return “worried” for the book, but with star authors
It’s the traditional literary season in France: 490 new novels will be published by mid-October. The figure is lower than usual, 30 less than last year, and 150 less than…
Literary back to school 2022: “It’s a lottery by definition”
After an exceptional year for the world of French publishing, only 490 novels are expected at the start of the 2022 academic year. The headliners are called Virginie Despentes with…