Tag: Literature
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…
the writer Christine Angot joins the jury of the Académie Goncourt
The Académie Goncourt is once again complete. Following the departure of Patrick Rambaud, who had given up his seat for health reasons, the jury which awards the most prestigious literary…
Sale of books: the powers of literature in the face of death
Chance of publications, the questioning of the powers of literature in the face of death crosses several of the bestsellers of this autumn. Starting with Justine Augier’s book, Believe (23rd…
Erik Orsenna, the ogre-cuckoo, the sorrel and the pulley
Like a ferocious tale, the Academician Erik Orsenna tells through the pages of his new novel and without naming it, the itinerary of the businessman Vincent Bolloré. If Erik Orsenna…
Nadia Chonville, to get out of the silences
“This novel is the story of anger, but it’s also the story of silence, how our silences create violence and anger”. My heart is beating fast is a novel in…
Annie Lulu, between vodka and kinkeliba
A bit like her heroine, Annie Lulu has the smile of the Black Sea and the irony of the Great Lakes, but that’s it. It too is the result of…
Luba Jurgenson, lecturer in Russian literature at Paris-Sorbonne University
On the occasion of the publication of the complete works of Vassili Grossman, and in particular of “Souvenirs and correspondence” edited by his son. Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives in his magazine…