Tag: Literature
Max Monnehay, author of thrillers between La Rochelle and the Ile de Ré prison
Max Monnehay was born in 1980 in Beauvais. She is the author of several novels and short stories, among which “Corpus Christina», Prize for the first novel in 2006. «Geography…
Inkwell memory: 20 years of a diversity publishing house
Founded in Montreal in 2003, the publishing house Mémoire d’encrier is about to celebrate its 20th anniversary. Novel, story, short story, poetry or chronicles, the Canadian publishing house publishes authors…
Ukraine restricts Russian literature and music – researcher: “Laws are populist”
Ukraine breaks ties with Russia by regulating Russian art. According to a researcher at the Foreign Policy Institute, the actions will turn against Ukraine, as Putin may use the new…
Gérard Gavarry navigates between two waters
Gérard Gavarry returns with a maritime novel that tells the fate of the cargo ship “Nauplios”. The story of her last voyage between Greece and West Africa where she will…
Literature: Gérard Prunier, fifty years in the Great Lakes region
Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda: in ten short stories, Gérard Prunier recounts half a century of life in East Africa. Guest: Gerard Prunierformer CNRS researcher, now independent consultant and specialist…
Discovering Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, Kikuyu-speaking Kenyan writer
Holder of numerous international prizes, born in 1938, is considered the greatest Kenyan writer and is regularly cited as a potential Nobel Prize for Literature. His considerable work (novels, short…
Sailing between hell and paradise in pre-colonial Africa, with Abdulrazak Gurnah
Originally from Zanzibar, the Briton Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is the author of a dozen novels, volumes of short stories and literary essays. The…
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…