Tag: Literature
Tierno Monénembo, in memory of the victims of Camp Boiro in Guinea
Born July 21, 1947 in Guinea, Tierno Monénembo went into exile in 1969 and lived successively in Senegal and Côte d’Ivoire before moving to France in 1973 to continue his…
History and Race with Grace Ly
Incredible, there is the word race in Grace. But is her name really Grace Ly? Nicknamed small banana by mom, she made a food blog out of it. So blogger…
My neighbor, the travel writer: meeting with Bernard Ollivier
An apostle of slow travel, a former French journalist and late travel writer, Bernard Ollivier created the association Seuil in 2000, an association for the reintegration of young people in…
Theatre: “Gulliver’s Travels” adapted by Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq
Gulliver’s Travels, written at the beginning of the 18th century by the Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift, has come down to us as a children’s tale. The largely amputated original text…
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, the big bath challenge
Filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is publishing a jubilant new novel freely inspired by the fate of Eric Moussambani, a young Guinean swimmer who marked the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. We…
Stéphane Audeguy, the empire of metamorphoses
Stéphane Audeguy’s new novel strolls through a century of Japanese history. A kaleidoscope of intersecting women’s destinies, in a Japan torn between tradition and modernity. A young American bride who…
“Strive for digital sobriety” by Frédéric Bordage
Frédéric Bordage, the author of Strive for digital sobriety, offers us solutions that are easy to implement (not giving in to technological sirens, buying sustainable equipment, recycling, etc.) so that…
Diadié Dembélé, advocacy for equality and language sorority in Mali
Diadié Dembélé was born in Kodié, in western Mali. A graduate of the Master of literary creation from the University of Paris VIII, he works as an interpreter in an…
Mina Namous, in the life of a free woman in love in Algiers
Mina Namous, born in 1984 in Paris in an Algerian family, spent her childhood and adolescence in Algeria. A lawyer, she practiced in Algiers then in Paris. From 2010 to…
Laure Gouraige traces a life in black ink
In her new novel, Laure Gouraige confronts her heroine with the question of identity, origin and heritage, with the stigmatization of being reduced to a “black” person and all that…