Tag: Literature
At the crossroads of the worlds, with the first-time novelist Walid Hajar Rachedi
Franco-Algerian, Walid Hajar Rachedi delivers, with What am I going to do in paradise? a promising first novel. Half-autofiction, half “road-novel”, this book tells the initiatory quest of its central…
The Algiers International Book Fair placed under the sign of memory
After a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 25th edition of the Algiers International Book Fair, SILA, was inaugurated on Thursday March 24. The show takes place at…
Laetitia Strauch-Bonart: “From France, this country we thought we knew”
Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives, in Ideas, Laetitia Strauch-Bonart. Former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure Ulm in Philosophy and of Sciences Po Paris in Public Affairs. Laetitia Strauch-Bonart is particularly interested…
Guadalupe Nettel, a thousand and one ways to become a mother (or not)
Born in Mexico in 1973, Guadalupe Nettel has shared her life between Mexico City, Barcelona and Paris. She is the author of several storybooks, collections of short stories and four…
Jean Teulé, may the best lose
After “Crénom, Baudelaire! Jean Teulé returns with his verve and his humor, this time revisiting one of the greatest defeats in the history of France, the battle of Agincourt. The…
Jeanne Benameur, daughter of the Mediterranean and sister of Isis
Jeanne thinks, even when she dances, she thinks. She has Atlantic thoughts, also turned towards the Aegean Sea. That’s how in his bag, the undertow of a story begun in…
“there is no conflict between French and the national languages”
French remains the 5th most spoken language – after English, Chinese, Hindi and Spanish – and the second most taught foreign language in the world. This is what results from…
“Writing in French to heal my wounds”
” This story was so painful, that the words of my mother tongue had lost their meaning to tell it “. For Aliona Glukhova, a 37-year-old French-speaking Belarusian, writing a…
Zainab Fasiki, from mechanical engineering to queer “artivism”
The Artistic Courage Prize rewards each year on the sidelines of the Angoulême International Comics Festival an author who stands out, in his country, for his bravery, whether through comics,…
In Ukraine with Andreï Kourkov and in Quebec with Paul Serge Forest
Special program with the Ukrainian writer Andrei Kurkov who bears witness to the war in his country. And in this Week of the French Language in the world, meeting with…