Tag: Literature
Female transmission at the heart of the latest novel by Quebecer Lise Gauvin
Novelist, essayist and professor emeritus of the French language department at the University of Montreal, Lise Gauvin has received numerous awards and is one of the founding members of the…
French language: New 2023 edition of the Le Petit Robert dictionary
Each year, the new edition of the Petit Robert of the French language sees new words appear and disappear, mirroring today’s society. What will be the new arrivals and the…
Robert Littell, a Shakespearean drama in Moscow
Robert Littell, master of the spy novel, returns today with ‘The Plague on Both of Your Families’. The American writer explores this time the post-Soviet Russia of the early 90s…
the African lesson of Bernard Mouralis
Enlightenment, essays on a life is an autobiographical story. Its author Bernard Mouralis (1), little known to the general public, was an unforgettable professor of African literature, now retired. Author…
Mariken Heitman from Utrecht wins Libris Literature Prize
Heitman reacted with surprise to the award. “I hadn’t prepared anything, you hear my stammering,” she said after thanking all kinds of people, including her wife and parents. “I also…
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…