Tag: Literature
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…
Leonardo Padura, living and writing in Cuba
In Water everywhere, living and writing in CubaLeonardo Padura, one of the greatest contemporary writers in the Spanish language, looks back on his career as a Cuban writer. Through a…
Another story of Algeria with the American writer Alice Kaplan
American writer, academic and historian, Alice Kaplan has worked on memory, autobiography and archives concerning the post-war French literary scene. After being interested in the Algeria of Albert Camus in…
JR Dos Santos, when eating animals destroys our planet
Journalist, war reporter (Syria, Iraq, Ukraine), star presenter of 20H in Portugal for more than twenty-five years, JR dos Santos has established himself as one of the greatest authors of…
Mariken Heitman about winning Libris Literature Prize: ‘I’m still speechless’
The pea plays a major role in the book. The main character, a seed breeder, wants to restore the pea to its original state and not grow it into an…