Tag: Literature Without Borders
100 years after his death, Marcel Proust read by foreign writers
100 years ago, exactly to the day, on November 18, 1922, the French writer Marcel Proust died at the age of 51. A century after his death, it is clear…
Caroline Laurent, anger, as a literary weapon
Caroline Laurent is Franco-Mauritian. After the success of her book co-written with Évelyne Pisier, And suddenly freedom (Les Escales, 2017) translated in many countries, she has published Shore of Wrath…
Claudie Hunzinger, winner of the Prix Femina for “A dog at my table”
Writer and visual artist, Claudie Hunzinger is the author of numerous books, including, at Grasset, They lived in hope (2010), Survival (2012), The language of birds (2014), the incandescent (2016)…
Brigitte Giraud, winner of the Prix Goncourt 2022 with “Live fast”
Brigitte Giraud is the thirteenth writer to be crowned with the Prix Goncourt since its creation in 1903. Author of around ten books and texts for young people, she received…
Jean-Paul Mari, the reporter who seeks light at the end of the night
Jean-Paul Mari was born in 1950 in Algiers. He is a journalist, reporter and writer. Albert-Londres Prize, Bayeux Prize for War Correspondents, Grand Prize for “Elle” readers, he is among…
Close-up on the first winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1903: John-Antoine Nau
Who was John-Antoine Nau, winner of the first Goncourt prize in 1903? An adventurer as much at home in San Francisco as in Martinique. A poet keen on freedom and…
Olivia Rosenthal, to seek at the end of the world what is buried in oneself
Olivia Rosenthal is the author of a dozen fictions with Éditions Verticales, including We are not here to disappear (2007, Wepler-La Poste Foundation Prize 2007), What do the reindeer do…
Titaua Peu, to put an end to the silences of his country Tahiti
Author with an eminently political commitment, Titaua Peu writes a realistic Polynesian society, far from illusory clichés. She represents one of the main French-speaking voices of Pacific literature. Mutisms, her…
Marc Dugain, the writer who loved spies
After having lived the first seven years of his life in Senegal, Marc Dugain returned to France with his parents. At 35, he wrote his first novel, The Officers’ Room…
Beata Umubyeyi Mayor, reconciling and repairing all her identities
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was born in Rwanda in 1979. She arrived in France after surviving the genocide of the Tutsi. Her first novel All your children scattered received the Prix…