Tag: Literature
[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…
In the gears of colonial conquest in Madagascar, with Michèle Rakotoson
In his new novel Ambatomanga, the Malagasy novelist Michèle Rakotoson recounts the colonial conquest of her country in the 19th century, revisiting through fiction the brutalities and devastation from which…
One land, one author: in Brazil with Estelle-Sarah Bulle
Estelle-Sarah Bulle was born in 1974 in Créteil, from a Guadeloupean father and a mother who grew up on the Franco-Belgian border. She is the author of a first novel,Where…
“The Netanyahu Years – Israel’s Great Turn”, by Jacques Bendelac
He marked Israeli political life for three decades, and continues to do so. In The Netanyahu Years – Israel’s great shiftJacques Bendelac retraces the career of this man of power,…
One land, one author: in Senegal with David Diop
Born in Paris in 1966, David Diop grew up in Senegal and is a lecturer at the University of Pau. He signs, withThe Gate of the Journey of No Return»,…
Laurent Gaudé, Marc Jolivet, Amélie Nothomb, Jean-François Samlong, among others, 2nd 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 Laurent…
Papa Ngady Faye, from Senegal to Italy, importer of African literature
Papa Ngady Faye is a Senegalese immigrant to Italy. Arrived illegally 17 years ago in the south of Italy, he started selling books in the street a bit by chance.…