Tag: Literature
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…
[En intégral] Jean D’Amérique (Haiti): “Opera Dust”
Forgotten by history, Sanite Bélair (1781-1802) returns from the dead to haunt us. A sergeant, then a lieutenant in the Haitian revolutionary army, she was captured by French settlers and…
Dieudonné Niangouna in a word, a gesture and a silence
Dieudonné Niangouna, 46, born in Brazzaville, was in 2007 the first author and director from sub-Saharan Africa invited to the Festival IN d’Avignon. In 2013, he was the first artist…
Romain Puertolas, Janry, Batem, Frédéric Niffle, Catherine Meurisse, among others, 3rd 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 French writer Romain…
“Before the night takes me away” by Guy Cuevas and Jean-François Kervéan
Before the night takes me away traces the biography of Guy Cuevas, who was the disc jockey of several Parisian nightclubs, and in particular the Palace, during the heyday of…