Tag: Literature
Beata Umubyeyi Mayor, reconciling and repairing all her identities
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was born in Rwanda in 1979. She arrived in France after surviving the genocide of the Tutsi. Her first novel All your children scattered received the Prix…
In the quicksand of memory, with Mozambican Mia Couto (2/2)
It is in the city of Beira, on the coast of Mozambique, that the action of the new novel by Mia Couto, the leading writer of her country, takes place.…
Laurent Gaudé, what will tomorrow’s world be like?
Novelist, short story writer and playwright born in 1972, Laurent Gaudé is an integral part of the French literary panorama of the 21st century. His work, translated worldwide, is published…
“Dog 51” by Laurent Gaudé
The French playwright and writer Laurent Gaudé, Goncourt prize in 2004, publishes in this literary season Chien 51 (Editions Actes Sud). An atypical fiction in his work since, for the…
Emmanuelle Richard, this obscure subject of desire
“Men”, the fourth novel by Emmanuelle Richard questions, frankly and with her frank pen, feminine and masculine desire. A powerful feminist novel, which probes with its lively gaze, patriarchal violence,…
Literature: Catherine Millet, chronicle of a youth in the St Germain des Près of the 60s
Catherine Millet tries to unravel the mysterious intertwining of chances, confused desires, more or less well-understood opportunities that lead a young girl with no luggage, no money and no great…
“The tumult” of Sélim Nassib, “to understand the history of Lebanon without doing politics”
The novel The tumult, by Sélim Nassib (Éditions de l’Olivier), tells the story of Youssef, a teenager who grew up in Beirut in a Jewish family. It is also the…
Catherine Bardon, the flower, misfortune and the dictator
In her new novel and after the success of her saga “The Uprooted”, Catherine Bardon recounts today the overwhelming fate of Flor de Oro Trujillo, the daughter of one of…
EXTRA! the living literature festival with Simon Johannin
The Extra! will take place from September 8 to 18, 2022 and highlights sound creation, radio, performances, literary speed-dating. Simon Johannin,author and poet, he is one of the great guests…
“The Jester’s War”, an adolescence in Bondy signed Idir Hocini
Between The War of the Buttons, The Lord of the Rings and The little Nicolas, The Jester’s War is a learning novel with irresistible humour. This first novel published by…