Tag: Literature Without Borders
Michèle Rakotoson, remembering the colonial war in Madagascar
Michèle Rakotoson was born in Madagascar. Writer and playwright, she was also a journalist and head of literary events at RFI. In 2012, she was named Commander of Malagasy Arts…
Another story of Algeria with the American writer Alice Kaplan
American writer, academic and historian, Alice Kaplan has worked on memory, autobiography and archives concerning the post-war French literary scene. After being interested in the Algeria of Albert Camus in…
JR Dos Santos, when eating animals destroys our planet
Journalist, war reporter (Syria, Iraq, Ukraine), star presenter of 20H in Portugal for more than twenty-five years, JR dos Santos has established himself as one of the greatest authors of…
Mahir Guven, remembering beautiful things and beautiful people
Mahir Guven was born in 1986, he was executive director of the newspaper Le 1 and of the magazine America, and is now literary director of the label “La Grenade”…
Ervé, celestial tramp, life in the street, writing in the skin
Ervé lives on the street. And this inhabits it. He drags with him the burden of a bad childhood and between anger, sadness and melancholy, he writes, among others on…
Ling Xi, grace and pain according to the French-speaking Chinese writer
Ling Xi left her native China in 1998 to attend a major Parisian business school, she then worked in financial companies. She is the author in French of several fictions:…
Cristina Comencini, women, teachers and children
Director, screenwriter and writer, Cristina Comencini was born in 1956 in Rome and attended French high school. She made her debut with her father Luigi Comencini before directing her own…
Nancy Huston, from continent to continent, from America to Africa
Born in Calgary, Canada, Nancy Huston, who now lives in Paris, is the author of numerous novels published by Actes Sud and Leméac, including “Instruments of Darkness” (1996; Goncourt Prize…
Should we distinguish the work of its author? with Gisele Sapiro and Vanessa Springora
Gisèle Sapiro is research director at the CNRS and director of studies at the EHESS, specialist in the commitment of intellectuals and the relationship between literature and politics. She is…
Zineb Mekouar, back and forth between Morocco and France
Zineb Mekouar was born in 1991 in Casablanca, and has lived in Paris since 2009. She has just published her first novel under the title “The hen and its cumin»,…