Tag: Literature
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…
Literature: Miguel Bonnefoy brings the “Inventor” of solar energy out of the shadows
The writer Miguel Bonnefoy is releasing a new novel in this literary season, already in the first selection of the Prix Femina, entitled The inventorthe true story of a great…
Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Colombia, the guerrillas and the Mao school
Juan Gabriel Vasquez’s latest novel traces the extraordinary life of Colombian director Sergio Cabrera. An intimate story that mingles with the great collective movements of the 20th century between Maoist…
Joffrine Donnadieu, cruel gentleness and checkers games
After “A History of France”, her very noticed first novel, Joffrine Donnadieu returns with a sequel to her story. A breathtaking close-up. A face-to-face between two women without pity and…
Philippe Jaenada, Ananda Devi, Léonora Miano, Mehdi Charef, among others, 9th stage
This week, we take you to discover several personalities against the background of the literary season: the French author Philippe Jaenada, the Mauritian author Ananda Devi, the Quebec author Denise…