Tag: Literature
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…
Rachid Santaki: hated or adored, can a dictation change everything?
An outdated exercise for some, an essential learning tool for others, a humiliating test for spelling dummies, or Madeleine de Proust for good students, can a dictation really change the…
Two and a half months after his attack, Salman Rushdie is still suffering
Stabbed in August in the United States, the British writer Salman Rushdie has since lost the sight of one eye and the use of one hand, among other serious consequences,…
“Confidences of a French Intelligence Agent”, by Guilhem Giraud
Former agent of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST, now DGSI), Guilhem Giraud is a specialist in wiretapping. In Confidences of a French intelligence agent (Robert Laffont editions), he points…
Titaua Peu, to put an end to the silences of his country Tahiti
Author with an eminently political commitment, Titaua Peu writes a realistic Polynesian society, far from illusory clichés. She represents one of the main French-speaking voices of Pacific literature. Mutisms, her…