Tag: Literature
Viktor Grewe became a gang member at the age of 14 – he left the life that many young people in Sweden drift into Foreign countries
STOCKHOLM What do you want to be when you grow up? A former gang criminal Viktor Grewen I think this is the most important question you can ask a young…
Gaël Faye presents his novel Jacaranda in music at the Gisozi memorial
In Kigali, the writer and songwriter Gaël Faye performed this Thursday, December 12 at the Gisozi national memorial with a musical reading of his novel Jacaranda A first public performance…
Korean Han Kang, 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature and modernist storyteller of buried tragedies
On the occasion of the solemn award of the Nobel Prizes in Stockholm this Tuesday evening, a look back at the journey and the exceptional work of Han Kang, winner…
The Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal heard by the anti-terrorist prosecution of Algiers
Boualem Sansal was placed under arrest warrant in Algeria: this is what his lawyer said in a press release shared this Wednesday, November 27. The Franco-Algerian writer, arrested in Algiers…
Arrest in Algiers of Franco-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal
In Algeria, the writer Boualem Sansal has been in police custody for almost a week in the premises of the security services in Algiers while waiting to be presented before…
Franco-Algerian author Kamel Daoud targeted by controversy, Gallimard denounces “defamation”
The publisher Gallimard denounced attacks on Monday, November 18: defamatory » against the Franco-Algerian author Kamel Daoud, 2024 Goncourt Prize for his novel Houris. The Franco-Algerian author is accused, by…
British writer Samantha Harvey won the Booker prize for literature | News in brief
This year’s Booker literary prize has been won by a 49-year-old British author Samantha Harvey from his novel Orbital. The novel follows six astronauts from Japan, Russia, the United States,…
DH Lawrence, the child of the “working class” who revolutionized erotic literature – L’Express
Virginia Woolf, who was easily condescending (she even despised Dickens and his “very banal style”), did not hold DH Lawrence in high esteem. When this son of a miner, pure…
Bookstores tense over the return of the sale of books without delivery fees by Amazon
Since November 5, Amazon has once again offered free delivery for book sales. The American platform uses its automatic lockers, located in many small businesses, where customers come to collect…
Pedro Páramo: a masterpiece of Mexican literature becomes a Netflix film
New Mexican film inspired by a literary masterpiece: Pedro Páramo is coming to Netflix. Information about the program. Summary Pedro Paramoone of the most important novels in Mexican literature, written…