Tag: Literature
Patricia Reznikov, in the footsteps of Alice, mischievous and feminist heroine
Franco-American novelist, graduate of the Beaux-Arts in Paris, Patricia Reznikov has published numerous novels. Whose “The photographer’s dreamwhich received six prizes and was a finalist for the Renaudot Prize, or…
In his novel “Connemara”, Nicolas Mathieu offers a teenage parenthesis to his characters
Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 2018 for Their children after themthe writer Nicolas Mathieu tells us about his new novel, Connemarapublished by Actes Sud. Taking place in the east…
Isabelle Carré plays with the rules of the game
Can we become the author of our own existence, or does reality inevitably catch up with us? This is the question that Isabelle Carré attempts to answer in her third…
law aims to ban music and literature from Russia
Ukraine will considerably restrict the place of Russian music on the airwaves and in public places. The importation of books published in Russia will also be prohibited, according to two…
When tongues sigh with Carles Diaz
The art of the formula has taken possession of the chair and soon the microphone In G Major. He says it with an accent (really? But an accent according to…
Bruce Chatwin, the insatiable nomad – So far so close
In the pantheon of travel writers, the Briton Bruce Chatwin holds a resolutely special place. Consecrated leader in the 80s of “travel writing”, he however refused this term which he…
Being from Mauritius and the world, with Barlen Pyamootoo
Monterey is the title of the new opus from the pen of the Mauritian Barlen Pyamootoo. The man made himself known in 1999 by publishing Benares, his very first novel.…
A Tahitian silence signed Titaua Peu
The Tahitian is not a big talker. This is what Titaua Peu writes. But behind this perhaps cultural Tahitian silence, there is a mountain biding its time. Mountain of anger…
Tanzanian writer Abdulrazak Gurnah, 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature
Consecrated by the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021, Abdulrazak Gurnah was born in 1948 in Zanzibar, Tanzania. He taught for a long time at the University of Kent in…
Audrée Wilhelmy, the power of nature, women and storytelling
Born in Cap-Rouge in 1985, Audrée Wilhelmy lives between the fields and the forest of Sainte-Élisabeth, Quebec. After “Les Sangs” (Sade Prize 2015) and “Le Corps des Bêtes” (2018, Finalist…