Tag: Literature
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This week, we take you to discover several personalities: the mayor of Montreal Valérie Plante for the unpublished confidence, the Quebec author Larry Tremblay for the unpublished report, the French…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…
“The Circle of Terror”, by Céline Martelet and Edith Bouvier
After the fall of the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, the jihadists reorganized, still posing a threat. Among them, French jihadists. What have they become ? What future…
Raozy Pellerin, breaking the silence of the fight of refugees in France
Raozy Pellerin was born in Marseille, to parents of Malagasy and Comorian origins, and grew up on the island of Reunion. She studied international law. After several years in the…
Alain Mabanckou, life in the kingdom of the dead
Born in Pointe-Noire in Congo-Brazzaville, Alain Mabanckou teaches today in the United States. Translator, editor, writer, documentary filmmaker, he is the author of numerous essays and novels including porcupine memory…
[En intégral] Laura Sheïlla Inangoma (Burundi): “Memory trial”
A trial. Three women are accused of murder and practicing “barbaric rites” but for lack of bodies, judges, lawyers and witnesses are fighting over what makes tradition and modernity in…