Tag: Literature
Literature: “Stöld” by Ann-Helen Laestadius gives a voice to the Sami people
The book had a resounding success in Sweden, and it has just been published in France by Robert Laffont editions. Stoldby Ann-Helen Laestadius, sheds harsh light on the condition of…
Halimata Fofana, the scar woman
Long torn between two worlds, under the weight of a taboo inherited from generation to generation called excision. Welcome to our intimacy In G Major. No doubt you make your…
The African Marseille of Claude McKay
Intrigue in the world of publishing, we found the microfilm of a novel by Claude McKay, writer of the Harlem Renaissance movement and author of Banjo. The text will eventually…
Frenchwoman Marie-Aude Murail receives the Andersen Prize
With millions of copies sold and nearly a hundred books published, French author Marie-Aude Murail has been a leading figure in world children’s literature for decades. His work has now…
Revisiting the darkness of colonial Mozambique, with Portuguese-speaking Mia Couto (1/2)
A great name in contemporary African Portuguese letters, Mia Couto writes for ” teach readers to dream “. Journalist, poet, novelist, columnist, storyteller, he is the author of a sumptuous…
“I have avenged the race, an indictment?” by Roberson Pierre
As part of the year of The beautiful human love devoted to Jacques Stephen Alexis, the Maurice Alfredo Sixto Foundation (FMAS) launched, on Wednesday August 31, 2022, a book on…
Touhfat Mouhtare, all fire, all flame
Born in 1986 in Moroni, Comoros, Touhfat Mouhtare grew up between her island and several countries in sub-Saharan Africa. Came to France to continue her studies, she now lives in…
“How does a couple of African-Americans without stories come to hijack a plane?”
Panthers and Pirates. African-Americans between class struggle and Black Power is the true and unknown story of Melvin and Jean McNair, two African-Americans from North Carolina who, in 1973, take…
Sibylle Grimbert, a friendship of the most beautiful kind
Sibylle Grimbert’s new novel is a moving and surprising book. It recounts the extinction of species through the frank friendship between a young scientist and the last of the great…
Miguel Bonnefoy, the solar writer highlights an inventor of the shadows
In 2013, “Young Writer” prize with Icarus and other short stories (Buchet-Chastel), Miguel Bonnefoy is the author of a multi-award winning work: Octavio’s Journey (2015, Five Continents Prize – special…