Tag: Literature
Frédéric Bihel, the shadow theater
Frédéric Bihel adapts Anne-Laure Bondoux’s novel “As long as we are alive” into a comic strip. A dense, powerful and hypnotic graphic narrative. The title of the new comic by…
“We are not born a guy, a small feminist treatise on masculinities”, by Daisy Letourneur
” We are not born man “. The title alone of the first book by transgender author Daisy Letourneur sets the tone: serious, irreverent and feminist. With this ” short…
Djaïli Amadou Amal, in the heart of Cameroon, the voice of all women
Born in the far north of Cameroon, Djaïli Amadou Amal is Fulani and Muslim. She was revealed in France with her novel “The Impatients“, crowned by several literary prizes including…
In the hustle and bustle of colonial Kenya, with Ngugi wa Thiong’o (2/2)
” Dreaming in times of war is the French title of the childhood memories of novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Octogenarian, the writer restores in this first volume of…
Les Prouesses, a new publishing house, feminist and open to the world
Flora Boffy-Prache and Zoé Monti-Makouvia, sisters by the way, have just created the publishing house “Les Prouesses” in order to publish literary works that resonate with female voices from all…
With “Allons z’enfants”, Éric Bataillon follows two activists in a fictional post-election France
Cultural guest Éric Bataillon, at the helm of the program Orient hebdo, a magazine devoted to the Maghreb and the Middle East on RFI, has just published his first novel…
Amadou Elimane Kane and the language of birds
I have just met a great Someone who inhabits the language of the birds. Here you are in poetic land. In the daily life of his poetry, there are 2…
The war of the word with Patrice Nganang
Really, being Cameroonian is a job ! The author Patrice Nganang knows something about it, he even made a book about it. Author of fifteen books including the famous Bad…
In Saint-Malo with Gwenaële Robert and Patrick Chamoiseau
At the Saint-Malo festival where the 32nd edition of the “Étonnants Voyageurs” festival takes place from June 4 to 6, 2022, meeting on site with the Saint-Malo novelist Gwenaële Robert…
Literature: dreaming in times of war, with the Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong’o (1/2)
The Kenyan Ngugi wa Thiong’o is the author of an immense body of work inspired by the myths and legends of his country, but also by its political destiny from…