Tag: Literature
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…
Mame-Fatou Niang, for a postcolonial universalism
By dint of eyeing the other side of the ring road, today Mame-Fatou Niang is thinking across the Atlantic. The precious word of Miss Nianglecturer at the Carnegy Mellon University…
Elitza Gueorvieva, Bulgarian writer and director: “Coming to France was a space flight”
As a child, Elitza Georgieva wanted to become a cosmonaut. But the fall of the Berlin Wall “shattered” this dream built by the state and made it possible to realize…
Great interview with Joel Dicker: the truth about a successful writer (part 2)
Joël Dicker was born in 1985 in Geneva where he still lives. He is the author of five novels translated into 40 languages which have sold more than 10 million…