Tag: Literature
Literature: between marginality and flashes, with the Afro-German poet May Ayim
Marked with the seal of indocility and melancholy, the poetry of the Afro-German May Ayim enchanted the American Audre Lorde and the Frenchwoman Maryse Condé. “Blues in black and white”…
Iran told by writers: Naïri Nahapétian and Stéphanie Perez
Nairi Nahapetian was born into an Armenian family in Tehran. A journalist, she is also the author of several novels, for adults and children, including “Who killed Ayatollah Kanuni? (Liana…
Rodney Saint-Eloi, the revenge of a Haitian son
/ Podcasts / In G major The wings of the alphabet were his first exile. He is the one who says it, he is even the one who writes it.…
“In Karachi, mafia and political class, relay of bosses’ domination”
In 2012, the deadliest industrial fire in world history took place in Karachi. 255 workers from the Ali Enterprise factories perished in this dramatic disaster. This Pakistani jeans manufacturer worked…
In Switzerland: with the writer Peter Stamm and the bookstore “L’etage”
Meeting with Peter Stamm born in 1963 in Switzerland. Journalist, writer, he is the author of a dozen novels since “Agnès” (1998) crowned by the Rauriser Literaturpreis p. He currently…
Jean-Claude Grumberg, an author’s tale
After his last moving book devoted to his wife Jacqueline, the playwright and writer Jean-Claude Grumberg returns with a tale for old children entitled ” From Pitchik to Pitchuk »…
For Pierre-Olivier Bannwarth, “tales are made to forge a relationship with one’s environment”
/ Podcasts / In person(s) “Stories, even tales, are made to weave a relationship with the environment around us. From the moment I know the story of the tree, the…
With “Enlève la nuit” Monique Proulx wishes to re-enchant the world
/ Podcasts / In person(s) “I intended to speak literally of someone coming into the world. I intended to put on new eyes to look at what we are currently…
Santiago Gamboa and his double
/ Podcasts / In G major “It’s good to turn a novel into a house”. The author ofA house in Bogotá had this sentence one day. And plenty of other…
Who to watch over the work of the Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges?
The state, a foreign university, his widow’s nephews? After fiercely defending the work of her late husband for 37 years, Maria Kodama died of cancer on March 26 without leaving…