Tag: Literature
One land, one author: in Iceland with Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir lives in Reykjavík. After studying art history in Paris, she directed the Museum of the University of Iceland. She is the author of several novels including “Rosa…
Francisco Coloane, the phoenix of Tierra del Fuego with flamboyant success
Francisco Coloane died 20 years ago, on August 5, 2002. Born on the island of Chiloé, in southwestern Chile, the multi-life writer, sailor, map designer, sheep herder, is the one…
[En intégral] Nathalie Hounvo Yekpe (Benin): “Race to the wedding”
It is the story of three sisters with linked destinies but only one of them succeeded. Madila is married to a rich man. Her children go to French school. Everything…
The author and academician Dany Laferrière as a child
On the occasion of the French Language and Francophonie Week: from Villers-Cotterêts to Abidjan, French, a plural language! (Replay) In The Watching Child, the narrator is a little boy who…
Christophe Balaÿ, the death of a contemporary Iranian literature lover
Linguist, specialists in Iranian letters, translator of It’s me who turns off the lights by Zoya Pirzad and The man who killed his desire of Sadeq Hedayat, Christophe Balaÿ died…
Ubah Farah, Somali and Italian writer, back from Mogadishu
Poetess and hyper-sensitive writer, Ubah Farah lives between Brussels and the many countries where she is called for writing residencies or literary festivals. His recent return to Mogadishu, after 31…
One land, one author: in Nigeria with Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a writer from Abba, southeastern Nigeria, has lived in the United States for more than twenty years. She is the author of several novels: Purple Hibiscus (2003)…
Jean Teulé, Patrice Franceschi, Dany Laferrière, Charlotte Rampling, among others, 4th stage
This season, we take you every week on a report to a region of the French-speaking world to discover a place or a personality. Today, meet the French writer Jean…
When Iran held America hostage
41 years ago, the staff of the United States Embassy in Tehran was released on January 20, 1981, after 444 days of detention. First 66 then 52, the hostages will…
One land, one author: in Mozambique with Isabela Figueiredo
Isabela Figueiredo, born in Maputo in 1963, (formerly Lourenço Marques), of Portuguese parents, left Mozambique at the time of the country’s independence in 1975. Her parents remained, and she lived…