Tag: Literature
The writer and journalist Michel Jean wants to “show what is beautiful despite everything” in a repulsive universe
Of Innu origin, one of the recognized indigenous peoples in Canada, the writer and journalist Michel Jean is one of the first to have written about his community. On the…
The Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to Norwegian Jon Fosse
The 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded this Thursday, October 5 to Norwegian playwright Jon Fosse for “his innovative plays”, announced the jury. The Swedish Academy honored the 64-year-old…
“The Outlaw State”, by Arié Alimi – Book France
For the Minister of the Interior, “police violence” does not exist as we imagine it, because the police exercise legitimate authority. Last week, more than 30,000 people demonstrated in France…
Louis-Ferdinand Despreez emerges from the shadows for the first time
South African novelist, involved alongside Nelson Mandela’s ANC, Louis-Ferdinand Despreez was advisor to several African heads of state. From his residence in Pretoria, he traveled the African continent for thirty…
In the company of the damned and blessed of Lagos, with Ayobami Adebayo
After making herself known by publishing a deliciously sentimental and successful first novel, the Nigerian Ayobami Adebayo delivers with In the time of the damned and the blessed his second…
Charline Effah, women’s bodies outraged by wars
Charline Effah was born in Gabon. Today in Paris, business manager by day, she writes by night. For “The Women of Bidibidi»Charline went to northern Uganda. “After the death of…
Éric Delphin Kwégoué wins the RFI theater prize for his play “À coeur Ouvert”
Éric Delphin Kwégoué, Cameroonian author, wins the RFI theater prize for his play “À coeur Ouvert”. The prize was awarded yesterday in Limoges as part of the Zébrures d’Automne, the…
“IS has lost popular support but retains a margin of sympathy”
Six years after the fall of Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State group’s caliphate, violence continues even if on a reduced scale. In Is the Islamic State defeated? ?published…
“Room 406, the Pablo Neruda affair”, investigation into the death of the Nobel Prize for Literature
On September 23, 1973, the writer Pablo Neruda died suddenly in a clinic in Santiago, Chile. Twelve days after Pinochet’s coup d’état, this death of the Nobel Prize winner for…
Jean-Michel Delacomptée for his book: “Jean de la Fontaine, portrait of an apple tree in flower”
Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives in Idées Jean-Michel Delacomptée for his book “Jean de la Fontaine, portrait of an apple tree in flower”. How have the fables of a 17th century poet…