Tag: Literature
“Data and sport, the revolution”, by Aurélie Jean and Yannick Nyanga
While the Rugby World Cup has just started, and less than a year before the Olympics, what big data has changed in sport and what issues does this raise? Data…
Breaking out of Moroccan silence with Rachid Benzine
Body and soul, he is Rachid Benzine. Body for this ex-champion of France of kickboxing, soul too since this lover of the ring has become a moving intellectual. Islamologist and…
Wole Soyinka, Nigerian writer, Nobel Prize winner for literature
Born in 1934, Wole Soyinka was the first writer from the African continent to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. Author of theater, poetry, memoirs, essays, and short…
“Two literary agents in the American century”, by Laurence Cossu-Beaumont
How were Colette, Sartre and Malraux exported to the United States? How did the great American texts arrive in France between the wars? Two literary agents in the American century…
Fatou Diome, freedom of writing
“We write because we couldn’t live without it.” It is with these words, in her latest novel, that Fatou Diome opens up about her passion for writing. The successful Franco-Senegalese…
With the disappearance of Professor Jacques Chevrier, African literature loses an ardent defender
Professor of African literature, literary critic, head of collections, Jacques Chevrier has just died. He will be missed by many people, especially his students, to whom he was able to…
“Despite all my rage” by Jérémy Fel, the violent Cap sans espoir
For this new literary season, Jérémy Fel returns with a fourth punchy, addictive and terrifying novel that will undoubtedly leave the reader completely stunned by so much terror. Four teenage…
Juliette Volcler, sound critic, author of “The orchestration of everyday life”
Pierre-Édouard Deldique welcomes Juliette Volcler, researcher, producer, sound critic, author of Contrôle, to his magazine Idées. How the art of sound manipulation was invented in 2017. She has just published…
Inside Zimbabwe’s political zoo, with NoViolet Bulawayo [1/2]
Zimbabwean novelist, NoViolet Bulawayo illuminates the foreign re-entry 2023 with her second novel Glory, an allegorical account of the history of Zimbabwe. Original, inventive and funny, this book is a…
Eric Delphin-Kwegoué (Cameroon): “LeZ-Zanimal” – It’s okay, everyone
A homecoming architect with grand plans, a money-obsessed billionaire, a witchy naturopath, and ambitious kids. A fable about the harshness of contemporary life, greed and wild dreams of a new…