Tag: Literature
[En intégral] Dieudonné Niangouna (Democratic Republic of Congo): “Ghost”
Three brothers and sisters, accompanied by their nephew, meet to sell the house of a father they never knew. But an old man, come to shelter from the rain, will…
Literature: “A child without a story” by Minh Tran Huy, words on the silence of autism
Journalist and novelist, Minh Tran Huy publishes in this literary season a very intimate text where for the first time she speaks of her son Paul, autistic. A story that…
Carole Fives reveals writing in troubled words
Carole Fives returns with a subtle and effective novel. A psychological thriller built around the triptych of admiration, exploration and imagination. A literary manipulation full of elegance that devours itself…
From Ajar to Paris, Fanta Dramé traces the path of her father
After a moving first trip to Mauritania in Ajar, the native village of his paternal family. Upon her return, Fanta Dramé decides to tell the story of her father with…
90 first novels, safe bets and fewer titles in bookstores
The traditional literary season is coming, and 490 new novels will be published by mid-October in France. This is 30 less than last year and 150 less than ten years…
Valérie Plante, Larry Tremblay, Patrick Chamoiseau, Jean-Jacques Sempé, among others, 8th stage
This week, we take you to discover several personalities: the mayor of Montreal Valérie Plante for the unpublished confidence, the Quebec author Larry Tremblay for the unpublished report, the French…
“Watchers of the living – With amateur naturalists”, by Vanessa Manceron
The French Book of the week focuses on a discreet but increasingly essential scientific practice: the observation of the living world. Participatory science that is not a hobby, but a…
Philomé Robert – In G major
A former journalist with Radio Vision 2000 in Port-au-Prince and RFI in Paris, Philomé Robert is presenter of the weekend news editions on the French international news channel France 24.…
Surveying the bitter chasms of black America, with Leila Mottley
Barely out of adolescence, the American Leila Mottley imposes herself with an ambitious first novel, which brilliantly mixes fiction and reality, romantic intrigue and a taste for words and metaphors.…
the writer Daniel de Roulet recounts the exiles of Swiss history
The Douarnenez festival, in Brittany, includes films but also books to explore the chosen theme, in this case this year the “underground Helvetians”. The French-speaking Swiss writer Daniel de Roulet…