Tag: Literature
Amanda Sthers tastes the aromas of life
In Naples, a café sospeso is a second coffee that you pay for and which will be offered to those who cannot afford a cup. This old tradition inspired the…
Literature: for Susie Morgenstern, “Writing is breathing”
Leading author of children’s literature, Susie Morgenstern, talks about her relationship with writing, which she describes as ” intimate archeology », a pen search in her thoughts that she practices…
Caroline Laurent, the ocean identity – In G major
I was hot, but I had feet. I was thirsty and I was ashamed while reading “Shore of Wrath”, Caroline Laurent’s second novel. 400 pages of total immersion in the…
Beata Umubyeyi Mayoress, saved by the language
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse is a Franco-Rwandan novelist, winner of the 2020 Five Continents Prize from La Francophonie for her novel “All your children dispersed”. (Replay) She dreamed of being a…
Nancy Huston, from continent to continent, from America to Africa
Born in Calgary, Canada, Nancy Huston, who now lives in Paris, is the author of numerous novels published by Actes Sud and Leméac, including “Instruments of Darkness” (1996; Goncourt Prize…
At the heart of the silences and despair of Nigerian migrants, with Chika Unigwe
Author of four novels and a collection of short stories, Chika Unigwe shares her life between Nigeria and the United States where she lives today after having lived in Belgium…
“The United Arab Emirates to conquer the world”, by Sébastien Boussois
international book international book focuses today on the excessive ambitions of the United Arab Emirates, a young independent state since 1971. In a few decades, the country has made a…
François-Xavier de Vaujany, author of “Managerial Apocalypse”
Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives in his magazine Idées, for the theme “The manager and the digital”: François-Xavier de Vaujany, associate university professor, specialist in theories of organizations and new forms of…
“Farewell Penelope!”: for a feminist rereading of the trip
Traveling as a woman in the 21st century is still a conquest. To get started, you have to arm yourself with confidence, words and female role models. The author Lucie…
Daniel Schick, the art of encounter
For his first novel, Daniel Schick imagines an encounter around art and Picasso, between a bohemian scholar of art, tired by life, and a young man who left Mali and…