Tag: Literature Without Borders
Katerina Autet, from Russia to France via the United States
Born in Russia, Katerina Autet spent her teenage years in the United States. She chose to come to France, twenty years ago, as part of a university exchange, and never…
The return of Boro, without Jean Vautrin but still with Dan Franck
Dan Franck is the author of some thirty books, including “The separation“(Renaudot Prize 1991), “Script», «The Flight of the Mona Lisa“, the trilogy “Bohemian Time” and “A century of lovewith…
Max Monnehay, author of thrillers between La Rochelle and the Ile de Ré prison
Max Monnehay was born in 1980 in Beauvais. She is the author of several novels and short stories, among which “Corpus Christina», Prize for the first novel in 2006. «Geography…
Discovering Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Kikuyu-speaking Kenyan writer
Holder of numerous international prizes, born in 1938, is considered the greatest Kenyan writer and is regularly cited as a potential Nobel Prize for Literature. His considerable work (novels, short…
Patricia Reznikov, in the footsteps of Alice, mischievous and feminist heroine
Franco-American novelist, graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Paris, Patricia Reznikov has published numerous novels. Whose “The photographer’s dreamwhich received six prizes and was a finalist for the Renaudot Prize, or…
Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
Consecrated by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021, Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. He taught for a long time at the University of Kent in…
Audrée Wilhelmy, the power of nature, women and storytelling
Born in Cap-Rouge in 1985, Audrée Wilhelmy lives between the fields and the forest of Sainte-Élisabeth, Quebec. After “Les Sangs” (Sade Prize 2015) and “Le Corps des Bêtes” (2018, Finalist…
Djaïli Amadou Amal, in the heart of Cameroon, the voice of all women
Born in the far north of Cameroon, Djaïli Amadou Amal is Fulani and Muslim. She was revealed in France with her novel “The Impatients“, crowned by several literary prizes including…
Les Prouesses, a new publishing house, feminist and open to the world
Flora Boffy-Prache and Zoé Monti-Makouvia, sisters by the way, have just created the publishing house “Les Prouesses” in order to publish literary works that resonate with female voices from all…
In Saint-Malo with Gwenaële Robert and Patrick Chamoiseau
At the Saint-Malo festival where the 32nd edition of the “Étonnants Voyageurs” festival takes place from June 4 to 6, 2022, meeting on site with the Saint-Malo novelist Gwenaële Robert…