Tag: Literature
“How much do our lives cost?”, by Pauline Londeix and Jérôme Martin
The France book of the week dissects the drug circuit. Research, production, marketing. So that access to treatments is not restricted to certain categories of the population or to certain…
2022 literary season: Africa-Caribbean-Black America (1)
Less rich than in previous years, this year’s literary season offers 490 new titles, including 345 French novels for 135 foreigners. The black world occupies a privileged place in this…
Kinga Wyrzykowska, when the family becomes the theater of society
Born in 1977 in Warsaw, Kinga Wyrzykowska emigrated to France as a child, during the state of siege in her country. white paw is his first novel. ” The Simart-Duteils…
The quest for the lost and found language, with Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Winner of the 2020 Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie for her first novel, the Franco-Rwandan Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse has established herself as one of the major voices of…
“In China’s rearview mirror, India’s image keeps shrinking”
A retired diplomat, Shyam Saran was the number two in the Foreign Ministry in New Delhi, and India’s ambassador to Beijing. He is the author of several books on the…
Minh Tran Huy, my son, my battle
Minh Tran Huy is a literary critic and writer. She is the author of multi-award-winning novels: The Princess and the Fisherman (2007), The Double Life of Anna Song (2009), Traveler…
[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…