Tag: Literature Without Borders
Francophone book meetings in Kigali: writing as reparation
Yolande Mukagasana and Dorcy Rugamba lost their families during the Genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Writing to testify and survive has since become essential for the…
Axelle Jah Njiké, Afropean writer and militant feminist
Axelle Jah Njiké was born in Cameroon and has lived in Paris since childhood. Afropean author, podcaster, columnist and pagan feminist activist, she created the podcasts “Me My Sex and…
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…
Tsering Yangzom Lama, his love song for Tibet
Tsering Yangzom Lama was born and raised in Nepal, where her family settled after fleeing Tibet in 1960. She has since lived in Toronto, Vancouver and New York. A graduate…
The 1st African Book Festival of Marrakech, all fire, all flame
Flam: four initials to designate the African Book Festival in Marrakech which took place a few days ago. For the first time, some fifty writers and artists from the Maghreb…
The Pocket Book celebrates its 70th anniversary and publishes a Machiavellian novel
It was in February 1953 that the first “Pocket Books” appeared. Today, with more than a billion copies sold since its creation in 1953, Le Livre de Poche is the…
Paul Pavlowitch, a writer’s life between Émile Ajar and Romain Gary
Paul Pavlowitch is a writer. All Immortals is his seventh book. He embodied the character of Émile Ajar, author’s name of the novel among others The life ahead (Prix Goncourt…
Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba, writing and fighting before the planet burns
In 2013, Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba left her job, her home and her family in Montreal, and settled in a wooden cabin in the Kamouraska region of Quebec. She spent three years…
Alice Dumas Kol, return to Cambodia in the footsteps of her family history
Alice Dumas Kol was born in New York in 1989 and grew up in Paris. She exercises her profession as a psychoanalyst there after having worked for the ballet Preljocaj…
Colette, the French writer celebrated 150 years after her birth
Exactly 150 years ago, on January 28, 1873, Sidonie Gabrielle Colette was born, who became “Colette”, the pen name under which she signed her literary work, consisting of around sixty…