Tag: Literature
Between literature and politics, with the Ivorian Gauz’
In 2014, the Ivorian Gauz’ took the literary world by storm with Standing Paid, a debut novel that reads like a fierce satire of consumer society seen through the eyes…
“Wine in China is experienced as a luxury product, but it is disconnected from the terroir”
“Tibetan Antilope Castle” is how a wine estate located in Bordeaux in France, was renamed after being bought by Chinese investors. As the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party…
Death of the French writer Jean Teulé, great enemy of boredom
Jean Teulé, a self-taught writer who became very popular as a TV columnist in the 1990s, died on Tuesday October 18 at the age of 69. According to a press…
Marc Dugain, the writer who loved spies
After having lived the first seven years of his life in Senegal, Marc Dugain returned to France with his parents. At 35, he wrote his first novel, The Officers’ Room…
Literature: Teddy’s autobiography, Allen Weiss’ library trip
A move to Manhattan is an opportunity for author Allen S. Weiss to take inventory of his library. During the long hours spent between the dust and the boxes, he…
Nadia Yala Kisukidi, the art of dissociation
If you ever go shopping this literary season, you can stock up on essentials. Thanks to a single novel, where it is a question of joy, daydreaming, assumed madness, political…
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…