Tag: Literature
For the novelist Anaïd Demir, “to project yourself, you need a return to the past”
Motherhouse, Anaïd Demir’s first novel is a return to family and cultural sources. After 20 years of hectic life in Paris as an art critic and exhibition curator, the budding…
“Doux mots dits”, a collection of poems by the singer Clou
Nominated in the “feminine revelation” category at the Victoires de la Musique 2021, the singer Clou is also a poet and designer. She publishes this spring Sweet words saida collection…
Reconnect with candor, with Elgas
Product of the Présence Africaine team, like his compatriot Mbougar Sarr, winner of the 2021 Goncourt Prize, Elgas is a journalist, essayist and novelist. With black malehis first novel, this…
“Nobles of hearts” or “telling about the youth thrown on the roads of exile”
How to speak of those who go on the roads of exile? Marc Alexandre Oho Bambe and Fred Ebami chose the graphic novel. noble at heart, is the title of…
Zineb Mekouar, back and forth between Morocco and France
Zineb Mekouar was born in 1991 in Casablanca, and has lived in Paris since 2009. She has just published her first novel under the title “The hen and its cumin»,…
Jean-Claude Ellena “nose-writer”: lexicon of lovers of smells and perfumes
It’s a book that talks about smells, perfumes and the words of this universe, written by two friends, one a composer of recognized perfumes, the other a journalist whose perfume…
Stylometry leads the investigation, from the Molière case to the Grégory case
Stylometry is a method of investigation that sifts through texts and their styles. From the Bible to Molière, passing through Elena Ferrante and Kurt Cobain, it allows certain debates to…
At the Paris Book Fair, Senegal is the new leader of the African pavilion
Africa has been present for more than ten years at the great Parisian literary mass. The traditional Book Fair has given way today to the Paris Book Festival, set up…
“The Odyssey of the Ants”, by Audrey Dussutour and Antoine Wystrach
The French Book of the week is interested in a much more varied world than we think: that of ants. It is the result of years of study by two…
75 years later, the Indian author Aanchal Malhotra tells the score through objects
At the time of the Paris Book Festival which is currently taking place and where Indian literature is the guest of honor, meeting with Aanchal Malhotra, Indian artist and historian,…