Tag: Literature
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…
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.…