Tag: Literature
Literature: Alain Mabanckou and “The business of reclining”
At the time of the literary season when 490 new French and foreign novels appear, today’s cultural guest is the writer Alain Mabanckou, who has just published The elongated trade,…
a literary return “worried” for the book, but with star authors
It’s the traditional literary season in France: 490 new novels will be published by mid-October. The figure is lower than usual, 30 less than last year, and 150 less than…
Felwine Sarr, the taste of dreams
Felwine Sarr, recognized as one of the African intellectuals who counts the most on the international scene, he published a learning novel: “The places my dreams live in”, published by…
Paule Constant, on the waves of an African memory
Paule Constant offers us with “The blindness of the rivers”, a journey to the heart of Africa. It recounts the plunge of a Nobel Prize in Medicine into his African…
Elisa Rojas, the little black dress
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others. Here is a lichette of Montaigne to open in G Major the door to a big…
Geneviève Brisac, Franck Giovannini, Néhémy Pierre Dahomey, Jil Caplan, among others, 7th stage
This week, we take you to discover several personalities. The writer and editor Geneviève Brisac for the unpublished confidence, the Swiss chef Franck Giovannini for the unpublished report, the Haitian…
A land, an author: in Tunisia with Fawzia Zouari
Born in Le Kef in Tunisia, Fawzia Zouari holds a doctorate in French and comparative literature. Based in Paris since 1979, she is a journalist and writer. His work is…
“Hadraawi’s poetry speaks to all Somalis across their divisions”
Poet emblematic of the Somali language and culture, Hadraawi nicknamed the “Somali Shakespeare” died Thursday, at the age of 79, in the Republic of Somaliland where he lived. Hugely popular…
One land, one author: in Guinea with Tierno Monénembo
Born July 21, 1947 in Guinea, Tierno Monénembo went into exile in 1969 and lived successively in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire before moving to France in 1973 to continue his…
[En intégral] Koulsy Lamko (Chad): “That of the islands”
“Celile” or “Celle des îles”, a storyteller and cabaret singer responds to a funny casting to brighten up the evenings of “well-thinking and well-sleeping customers” at the restaurant “Le petit…