Tag: Literature
“Mr. Loverman” by Bernardine Evaristo, activist storyteller
Winner of the Booker Prize 2019 with his masterful girl, woman, other, Bernardine Evaristo dominates British literature with her delightfully subversive writing. The publication in French translation this year of…
“The promise” of Damon Galgut, or the discomfiture of white South Africa
Booker Prize 2021 for his latest novel, South African Damon Galgut delivers with The promise a family saga that deals with the decline of white South Africa. The latest novel…
Family secrets amid the overthrow of the regime in Albania
In 1990, when the Albanian dictatorship was overthrown, Lea Ypi was 11 years old. In his story, Free, a child and a country at the end of history published by…
Katerina Autet, from Russia to France via the United States
Born in Russia, Katerina Autet spent her teenage years in the United States. She chose to come to France, twenty years ago, as part of a university exchange, and never…
Albert Camus, “The Stranger” or the Algerian writer?
Sixty years after the declaration of independence of Algeria, Albert Camus, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, born in Mondovi (today Dréan), is he considered an Algerian writer in his…
The Red Cheeks swing the foam of the days
On the stage of the Théâtre du Lucernaire, the theater company “Les Joues Rouges” adapts with poetry and emotions one of Boris Vian’s best-known works “L’Écume des Jours”. On the…
“800 days at the ministry of the impossible”, by Léo Cohen
In France, Prime Minister Élisabeth Borne must soon recompose her government with the unprecedented function of directly coordinating ecological planning to finally better deal with the climate emergency. Former collaborator…
Abdulrazak Gurnah: “Nobody influenced me” (2/2)
British writer of Zanzibarite origin, Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. In this second part of the column “ Writing paths dedicated to the winner, the writer…
The return of Boro, without Jean Vautrin but still with Dan Franck
Dan Franck is the author of some thirty books, including “The separation“(Renaudot Prize 1991), “Script», «The Flight of the Mona Lisa“, the trilogy “Bohemian Time” and “A century of lovewith…
“Gettysburgh, an emblematic battle, but not decisive”, according to Vincent Bernard
On April 12, 1861, the Civil War began in the United States, which was to end in 1865. With 750,000, perhaps 850,000 dead, or about 2.5% of the population. It…