Tag: Literature Without Borders
Pierre Laville, at the heart of the Comédie Française during the 2nd World War
Pierre Laville is a writer, playwright and director. His own plays and adaptations are performed by the greatest theaters (Comédie-Française, Odéon, Chaillot, Antoine Theater, Porte Saint-Martin, etc.) and have been…
Andrée A. Michaud, a Quebec writer on the edge of the noir novel
Andrée A. Michaud was born in Saint-Sébastien-de-Frontenac, Quebec. After studying philosophy, linguistics and cinema, she began a career as a writer. She quickly gained recognition for her literary noir novels,…
RJ Ellory, a new dark and chilling novel on the lands of Quebec
RJ Ellory was born in 1965 in Birmingham. After growing up in an orphanage, experiencing a bit of prison, he became a musician and then a writer. He is the…
Laura Alcoba, the memory of water in Argentina
/ Podcasts / Literature without borders Born in Argentina where she lived until the age of 10, Laura Alcoba had to go into exile in France with her family for…
Dany Laferrière, the singularity of racism in the United States
Dany Laferrière was born in Port-au-Prince in 1953. Winner of the Prix Médicis in 2009 for “The Enigma of the Return” (Grasset), he was elected to the French Academy in…
Davina Ittoo, the voice of women in Mauritius
/ Podcasts / Literature without borders Davina Ittoo is an author of poetry, novels and short stories. She lives and teaches in Mauritius where she is a lecturer at the…
Bessora, at the origin of his lame dynasty
Born in Brussels in 1968, Bessora grew up in Europe, the United States and Africa. She is the author of ” Pick me up pretty gentlemen » (Great literary prize…
Bernardine Evaristo, neither master nor slave
Bernardine Evaristo was born in Great Britain to a Nigerian father and an English mother. Militant, activist, playwright, she co-founded the Théâtre des Femmes Noires in 1982 and created the…
Special: Reading Day with Twelve Female Writers
On the occasion of National Reading Day in France, Friday March 10, 2023, special programming. “I read, you read, you read” and they read. They, like the twelve writers chosen…
Francophone book meetings in Kigali: Mohammed Mbougar Sarr and Wilfried N’Sondé
Mohammed Mbougar Sarr, Senegalese author, Goncourt Prize 2021 for “ The most secret memory of men » and Wilfried N’Sondé born in Brazzaville, multi-award winning author notably for his historical…