Tag: Literature
“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…
The origins of Algerian literature: five questions to Hervé Sanson
Hervé Sanson is a specialist in Maghreb literature. It recounts the conditions of emergence of French-speaking Algerian literature in the 1950s as the country plunged into a brutal war of…
Meeting with Jean-Yves Tadié, the specialist in the work of Marcel Proust
Jean-Yves Tadié is professor emeritus at La Sorbonne (Paris IV) and director of the “Classic Folio” and “Folio Theater” collections at Gallimard. A former student of the École Normale Supérieure,…
Martine Delvaux, rekindling the fire of ecological and feminist struggles
An essential voice of feminism in Canada, Martine Delvaux was born in 1968. She now teaches literature at the University of Quebec in Montreal, and is the author of numerous…
the eye of Raymond Depardon and the hand of Kamel Daoud
During the Evian Accords, on March 18, 1962, Raymond Depardon was 19 years old. During the negotiations between France and the FLN, he was one of the few photographers present…
Eugène Green, poet’s language
On the occasion of the Spring of poets and the week of the Francophonie, the filmmaker, playwright and writer Eugène Green publishes “By doing, by finding, notes on poetry” at…
The author and academician Dany Laferrière as a child
On the occasion of the Week of the French language and the Francophonie: from Villers-Cotterêts to Abidjan, French, a plural language! In The Watching Child, the narrator is a little…
Fatou Diome, to help Marianne
Living in France since 1994, French since 2002, Fatou Diome has observed over the years the evolution of political discourse in France. She is moved in an essay entitled “Marianne…