Tag: Literature
Close-up on the first winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1903: John-Antoine Nau
Who was John-Antoine Nau, winner of the first Goncourt prize in 1903? An adventurer as much at home in San Francisco as in Martinique. A poet keen on freedom and…
A wandering in the margins of contemporary France, with Nadia Yala Kisukidi
Franco-Congolese, Nadia Yala Kisukidi is a rising figure in African philosophy. Fascinated by novelistic writing, the philosopher delivers with Dissociation, his first novel published this fall, a very noticeable swerve…
“India, a fragile giant”, by Olivier Da Lage
The India of Gandhi and Nehru, founded 75 years ago on secular principles, is increasingly dominated by the Hindu nationalism of the BJP, the ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra…
Olivia Rosenthal, to seek at the end of the world what is buried in oneself
Olivia Rosenthal is the author of a dozen fictions with Éditions Verticales, including We are not here to disappear (2007, Wepler-La Poste Foundation Prize 2007), What do the reindeer do…
Giuliano da Empoli wins the Grand Prize for the Novel of the French Academy
The French Academy awarded Thursday, October 27 its Grand Prize to a first novel by the Italian-Swiss writer Giuliano da Empoli who has been snapping up in bookstores for six…
Olivia Rosenthal: “When you’re a writer, you’re used to being desperate”
Olivia Rosenthal is in the running for the Prix Médicis with her book entitled A monkey at my window, published by Verticales. The tale of a trip to Japan where…
Villa Al Qamar: a historic place to strengthen cultural exchanges between France and Lebanon
A set recorded at Villa El Qamar, in the historic city of Deir El-Qamar, “the convent of the moon”, about forty kilometers from Beirut, near the Mediterranean coast. This villa…
Beirut Books: how is the French language evolving in Lebanon?
How does French evolve in Lebanon in an Arabic-speaking environment with strong competition from English? A hard-hitting question as the new Book Fair takes place in Beirut with a hundred…
Pascale Robert-Diard, the truth under investigation
Legal columnist at Le Monde, Pascale Robert-Diard publishes with “La petite menteuse”, a first high-level pleading novel. A book that raises the question of lying and its consequences. For twenty…
Beirut Books, a French-speaking literary festival in a country in the midst of a crisis
Writers of 18 mainly French-speaking nationalities will be the guests of Beirut Books, a French-speaking literary festival … A new itinerant literary meeting in the Lebanese capital … a ray…