Tag: Literature Without Borders
At the sources of the first text of humanity: the epic of Gilgamesh
More than four thousand years ago, a story – the oldest that has come down to us – was told in Mesopotamia: that of the hero Gilgamesh. This legend was…
Philippe Torreton, reading, saying and living French poetry (2nd part)
Philippe Torreton was a member of the Comédie Française from 1994 to 1999. He played the greatest roles on stage: Scapin, Tartuffe, Harlequin, Henri V, Richard III, Hamlet or Galilée…
Philippe Torreton, reading, saying and living French poetry (1st part)
Philippe Torreton was a member of the Comédie Française from 1994 to 1999. He played the greatest roles on stage: Scapin, Tartuffe, Harlequin, Henri V, Richard III, Hamlet or Galilée…
Sully Quay, on the trail of black prisoners in the camps
An English teacher and writer, Sully Quay has lived in South Korea, Poland and Hungary, an experience she recounted in her story “I’m an Expat and So What?“. She has…
Sonia Ristić, daughter of the East, writer in the West
Born in Belgrade, Sonia Ristić grew up between the former Yugoslavia and Africa, and has lived in Paris since 1991. A woman of the theater, a woman of letters, she…
Guy Birenbaum, from microfiction to the great novel of life
Interviewer on radio and television (Europe1, France Info, RTL), tennis instructor, researcher, teacher, editor, columnist, author, blogger, Guy Birenbaum has done it all. But what he prefers in life is…
Benjamin Lacombe gives “The Little Mermaid” its true colors
Benjamin Lacombe was born in Paris in 1982. Author, illustrator and painter, he is a leading representative of new French illustration. He published his first book at the age of…
Unpublished portrait of Romain Gary seen and told by Kerwin Spire
Special program “Romain Gary”, born Roman Kacew in Vilnius in 1914, diplomat and author of an important literary work of which The roots of heaven (Prix Goncourt 1956) and under…
Christian Salmon, the art of silence in literature in times of crisis
Christian Salmon is a writer, essayist and columnist at Mediapart. After having been Milan Kundera’s assistant, in 1993 he founded the International Parliament of Writers and the Network of Cities…
In the footsteps of Marcel Proust, one hundred years after his death in 1922
At the time of the centenary of the death of Marcel Proust, great report on the lands of his childhood in Eure-et-Loir, in the town of Illiers-Combray, one hour from…