Tag: Literature
“Planet China Zero Covid, three years in orbit”, by Gaëlle Déchelette and Carole Gabay
The terms “Zero Covid” in China have disappeared from the country’s official press since the relaxation of sanitary measures last winter. During the pandemic, the expatriate association Solidarité Covid carried…
Natacha Appanah, in memory of her Indian ancestors in Mauritius
Nathacha Appanah has published her first novel The rocks of Poudre d’Or in 2003. She is the author, in particular, of Last F=brother and of Tropic of Violence. His work…
“The Abbey Bookshop”, an island of Canadian literature in the heart of Paris
Passionate about novels, the Canadian Brian Spence opened his bookstore The Abbey Bookshop in 1989, which he dedicated to English-language works, in the Latin Quarter of Paris. A tiny haven…
Phantom Death, Targeted Assassination as a Weapon of War, by Guerric Poncet
From time immemorial, from the poison vial to the cruise missile, from the isolated spy to the raid by a commando, targeted assassination has been practiced by everyone and everywhere…
Pierrette Mondako (Congo-Brazzaville): “A moment of brilliance”
A new wind is blowing in city B, like a burst of joy… Part of the population, after a devastating disaster, was compensated to the tune of several million CFA…
Luc Chomarat, the writer who moves the lines
Luc Chomarat was born in Algeria in 1959. Noticed from his first novel in 1982, he returned to literature in 2014 with The Spy Who Came from the Book. In…
Luc Chomarat: “We write books to write exactly what we want”
The cultural guest today is the French writer Luc Chomarat who, in this literary season where 466 novelties appear, has just published a novel entitled Le Livre de la retour…
Cédric Sapin-Defour, a dog and life rises
In his new novel, the writer-mountaineer Cédric Sapin-Defour pays a faithful, moving and tender tribute to his Bernese Mountain Dog. The preface to Cédric Sapin-Defour’s new novel is by Jean-Paul…
The most beautiful names in literature
First names inspired by literature are experiencing a resurgence in popularity today, driven by the vogue for poetic and timeless first names. Unforgettable heroines and heroes whose young parents want…
Literature: a less extensive but more open literary season
It is the symbol par excellence of the French cultural exception, the literary season which sees each year during this period hundreds of new novels surge in bookstores. This year,…