Tag: Literature
Former newsagent Jean Rouaud recounts his Goncourt Prize in “Autumn Comedy”
A few days before the new Goncourt Prize which will be announced on November 7, 2023, the cultural guest is a former winner: Jean Rouaud, awarded in 1990 for his…
“The Oath of Berne”, by Jean-Luc Romero-Michel
According to all polls, nine out of ten French people would be in favor of a “ultimate freedom” law on the end of life. Jean-Luc Romero-Michel, honorary president of the…
Colum McCann, 1001 nights at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Born in 1965 in Dublin, Colum McCann today lives in New York with his wife and their three children… Short story writer, essayist, he is also the author of novels…
“Rock’n’Road Trip”, by Lauric Henneton and Julien Grossot
In Rock’n’Road Trip, Lauric Henneton and Julien Grossot looked at the geography of rock songs. They identified all the references to the geography of the United States in these pieces…
Louis-Philippe Dalembert, all literature leads to Rome
Through three women’s destinies, the Haitian writer Louis-Philippe Dalembert takes the reader on a sensitive and feminine Roman journey where the small story entwines the big one. Louis-Philippe Dalembert is…
American poet and Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück dies at 80
The American poet Louise Glück, crowned with the Nobel Prize for Literature, has died at the age of 80, her publishing house and the prestigious Yale University at which she…
Louise Glück is dead – won the 2020 Nobel Prize in Literature
Updated 21.46 | Published 21.28 Share the article Save the article full screenLouise Glück won the Nobel Prize in Literature 2020. Photo: Daniel Ebersole / TT Nyhetsbyrån Nobel laureate in…
Lyonel Trouillot: the night light of the ordeal, female voices for Haiti
This book is that of a landscape of stones, rivers and shades, that of a hill damaged by the greed of a man, an unscrupulous notary who in these places…
the writer Roberto Saviano in court, accused of having defamed Giorgia Meloni
In 2020, in Italy, Roberto Saviano protested, as part of a television program, against the migration policy carried out by the Salvini government with the support of far-right leader Giorgia…
No tongue-in-cheek! French in all its states and debates
Political language, new spellings, neologisms, generational or activist jargons, French seems increasingly difficult to master. In No tongue-in-cheek!Swiss linguists propose to dispel false truths and reinvent our relationship with a…