Tag: Literature
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…
Axelle Jah Njiké, Afropean writer and militant feminist
Axelle Jah Njiké was born in Cameroon and has lived in Paris since childhood. Afropean author, podcaster, columnist and pagan feminist activist, she created the podcasts “Me My Sex and…
Literature: the art of being a pirate, with Seynabou Sonko
Djinns is the first novel by Franco-Senegalese Seynabou Sonko. Singer, interpreter, this primo-novelist not quite thirty years old entered literature through music and song. There is a lot of poetry…
Kamala Harris, President of the United States? “It would be a mistake to say that it never will be”
/ Podcasts / international book In the recent history of the United States, she was often a pioneer: the first prosecutor from California’s minorities, the first black senator from the…
Ervé, celestial tramp, life in the street, writing in the skin
Ervé lives on the street. And this inhabits it. He drags with him the burden of a bad childhood and between anger, sadness and melancholy, he writes, among others on…