Tag: Literature
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…
Yolande Mukagasana: “Writing has served me as therapy”
She is one of fifteen authors invited to the Rencontres du livre francophone at the French Cultural Institute in Kigali, Rwanda. Yolande Mukagasana, whose first job is a nurse, began…
Kossi Efoui, ordinary magic
Kossi Efoui was born in 1962 in Togo. His participation in the student movement of the 1980s, harshly repressed by the regime of General Eyadéma, led him to prison and…
Michaël Mention, jungle trip rock
Michaël Mention returns with a new punchy novel. A literary uppercut that follows an angry father after the tragic death of his daughter in a quest for revenge between Belleville…
Souleymane Diamanka and the pen takes the air
The poet and slammer Souleymane Diamanka publishes ” Of the pen and the sword “. A new collection of luminous poems. His new collection, Souleymane Diamanka opens it with René…