Tag: Literature
Sylvain Prudhomme, 2019 Femina Prize
Born in 1979, Sylvain Prudhomme is the author of several award-winning reports and novels translated abroad, including There, Bahi had said., The big ones as well as Legend. With his…
Emmanuel Bourdieu, the question of the legacy of evil from one generation to another
Emmanuel Bourdieu, son of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, was born in Paris in 1965. Philosopher, playwright, screenwriter and director of several films including “Louis-Ferdinand Céline” with Denis Lavant. He signs withI…
Philippe Katerine, all the art of filer mignon
Philippe Katerine is a protean and multi-talented dandy artist. He returns, this time, with a book and an exhibition entitled “Mignonisme”. An artistic current born at the border of Dadaism…
Nurith Aviv, the trace of the Hebrew letters in “Words that remain”
“Languages unite when you master several. They can talk to each other endlessly.” What can a language revive for you? What traces do they leave in those who spoke them…
Germain Louvet, freedom of movement
The star dancer of the Paris Opera publishes ” Things that are danced », published by Fayard. A text written with conviction, intelligence and finesse, which questions the codes of…
War in Ukraine: The Cultural Offensive
After the military, political, diplomatic, economic and financial earthquake, the cultural world is also organizing to condemn and counter the Russian invasion of Ukraine in its own way. Demonstrations of…
Refugee in Germany, Ugandan writer Kakwenza Rukirabashaija recounts his journey
Arrested in December for tweets mocking President Yoweri Museveni’s son, Ugandan writer Kakwenza Rukirabashaija is now a refugee in Germany. Country he joined after a long journey that he tells…
Antoine Wauters, poetry between the silence of some and the words of others
Born in Liège in 1981, Antoine Wauters is a Belgian poet and novelist. He is the author of “Our Mothers” in 2014 (SGDL Revelation Prize, First Prize) republished in the…
the origins of modernity in literature
Ignoring the censorship that weighed on the novelist James Joyce in the Anglo-Saxon world, a Parisian publisher published a hundred years ago, in Paris, the complete version of Ulysses in…
Christian Chesnot: “France has lost its unique and original voice abroad”
Before Russia declares war on Ukraine, the French president will have worked to avoid such an outcome. At the time of the assessment of the five-year term of Emmanuel Macron…