Tag: Literature
In the company of books, with the Tunisian Yamen Manaï
An engineer by training, the Tunisian Yamen Manaï chose literature to express his revolts, his frustrations and his despair in the face of the excesses of the world. At 40,…
[En intégral] Mohamed Mbougar Sarr (Senegal): “Enclosed Land”
Written in 2015 by the man who will become the first writer from sub-Saharan Africa to win the Goncourt Prize, this novel takes place in Kalep, a town in Sumal…
How Brittany has remained a land of legends
Fairies and korrigans, the mysterious city of Ys washed away by the waters, Ankou and Arthurian legends… Armorican folklore inspires dreams well beyond the borders of historic Brittany. How can…
Amazon slammed over literary forgery scandal
Clothing, sneakers, leather goods, luxury goods… The counterfeit market is running at full speed on Amazon, the e-commerce giant. A daily survey Le Figaro reveals that publishing is also affected…
René Frégni, Christian Guay-Poliquin, Oumou Sangaré, Bartabas, Jocelyne Béroard, among others, 5th stage
This season, we will take you on a weekly report to a region of the French-speaking world to discover a place or a personality. Today, meet the Marseille author René…
Kapka Kassabova: listening to the voice of places
Making travel a sensitive erudition is an art to which the author of Bulgarian origin applies herself brilliantly, book after book. Whether you close “Lisière”, his first work translated into…
Linda Lê, transfigured – In G major
Tribute to Linda Lê, who died on May 9, 2022… We don’t hear her coming, her books knock on our door quietly and now they are making a place for…
One land, one author: in the DRC with Tatiana Mukanire Bandalire
National coordinator of the National Movement of Survivors of Sexual Violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tatiana Mukanire Bandalire delivers, in “Beyond our tears”, prefaced by Doctor Denis Mukwege,…
Center Pen Haiti and Thédu’20
In this program, we give the floor to Ervenshy Hugo Jean-Louis and Tchadensky Jean-Baptiste, respectively responsible for communication of the Center Pen Haiti and the troupe Théâtre du 20 (Thédu’20).…
Cinema, the Nazi regime’s weapon of mass distraction
As soon as Hitler came to power, the regime wanted to compete with American productions, to find the Dietrich of Nazi cinema. But he found himself faced with a haemorrhage…