Tag: Literature
“Asphyxia: Raqqa, chronicle of an apocalypse”, by Céline Martelet and Hussam Hammoud
/ Podcasts / international book For almost four years, the city of Raqqa was the capital of the self-proclaimed “caliphate” of the Islamic State organization. Its inhabitants, trapped, experienced atrocities…
Laurie Pezeron makes people read with passion
Laurie Pezeron is Communication Manager at the Paris Federation of the Education League and founder in Ile de France of the association ” Read! » . Since 2007, she has…
Special: Reading Day with Twelve Female Writers
On the occasion of National Reading Day in France, Friday March 10, 2023, special programming. “I read, you read, you read” and they read. They, like the twelve writers chosen…
Hélène Frappat, looking for actresses
In his new novel Three women disappear», Hélène Frappat investigates the terrible fate that Hollywood has reserved for three generations of actresses, the actress Tippi Hedren as well as her…
Lydie Salvayre questions the future of literature
“What will become of literature if it becomes globalized, therefore simplified to be accessible to all, to have the language of everyone, speaking the globish, by erasing all singularity? I…
Jeanne Benameur, daughter of the Mediterranean and sister of Isis
Jeanne thinks, even when she dances, she thinks. She has Atlantic thoughts, also turned towards the Aegean Sea. That’s how in his bag, the undertow of a story begun in…
Françoise Schwab, author of “Vladimir Jankélévitch, the irresistible charm of the je-ne-sais-quoi”
/ Podcasts / Ideas Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives in Idées: Françoise Schwab, for his book devoted to the philosopher and musicologist Vladimir Jankélévitch. The latter questioned Greece, the Roman legacy and…
Francophone book meetings in Kigali: Mohammed Mbougar Sarr and Wilfried N’Sondé
Mohammed Mbougar Sarr, Senegalese author, Goncourt Prize 2021 for “ The most secret memory of men » and Wilfried N’Sondé born in Brazzaville, multi-award winning author notably for his historical…
In the world of wizards, sultans and slaves, with the Sudanese Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin
Adored in the Arab world, censored in his country because of his denunciation of the dictatorship in his stories, the Sudanese Abdelzaziz Baraka Sakin asserts himself as a major voice…
Francophone book meetings in Kigali: writing as reparation
Yolande Mukagasana and Dorcy Rugamba lost their families during the Genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Writing to testify and survive has since become essential for the…