Tag: Literature
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…
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…