Tag: Literature
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…
The “cancel culture” with historians Henry Laurens and Pierre Vesperini
Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives in the magazine Idées, for the theme “cancel culture” or “cancellation culture” in French: Henry Laurens, historian, holder of the chair of Contemporary History of the Arab…
News from Pierre Péju
Pierre Péju returns this time with a collection of short stories. A disguised essay that combines three stories that echo each other and propel the reader into a reflection on…
Avraham Yehoshua, death of a great writer and activist for peace between Israelis and Palestinians
“Man of peace”, “activist”, “committed writer”, key words evoked on the occasion of the disappearance of the Israeli writer Avraham Yehoshua. The author, Israel Prize in 1995, winner of the…
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…