Tag: Novelist
The Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to South Korean novelist Han Kang – L’Express
South Korean literature is in the spotlight. The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded this Thursday, October 10, to South Korean author Han Kang, 53. The writer, who writes poems…
My night in bombed Beirut, by the Lebanese novelist Hyam Yared – L’Express
On a quiet night during which Beirut is getting used to sleeping drowned in the sound of shells that we have learned to trivialize since the start of the offensives,…
“Aurélien Bellanger does not behave like a novelist, but like a necrophage” – L’Express
This is the controversy of the literary rentrée. In The Last Days of the Socialist Party (Seuil), Aurélien Bellanger wants to be the chronicler of the ideological defeat of the…
The not-so-feel-good book from France’s most widely read novelist – L’Express
She is the one who gives Guillaume Musso nightmares. For a decade, the latter dominated the reference ranking of best-selling books in France, established by our colleagues at Figaro. It…
why the novelist still fascinates us twenty years after her death – L’Express
And a birthday, or even two! 70 years of Hello Sadness and the 20th anniversary of the death of its author, Françoise Sagan. And publishing, eager for opportunities, to rush…
Utopia according to the Sierra Leonean novelist Ishmaël Beah [Rediffusion]
Former child soldier, Sierra Leonean Ishmaël Beah made himself known by publishing The path traveled, a poignant autobiographical account of the Civil War, its darkness and its brutality. He is…
A writing lesson, with Mauritian novelist Shenaz Patel
Between essays, poetry and short stories, Desêtre and other fragments is a collection of literary texts proposed by the 2023 class of the writing workshop sponsored by the French Institute…
Ayn Rand, a novelist too free for the left… and the right
Two episodes of Simpson are dedicated to him. According to a 1991 poll, only the Bible is more influential than his seminal novel, Strike. Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, Brad Pitt…
Mexican novelist Mateo Garcia Elizondo: “Death is a pretext to talk about life”
Mexican novelist Mateo Garcia Elizondo is the grandson of Colombian novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez. He signed with Maurice Nadeau editions a first novel entitled Rendez-vous with the Lady or how…
Meeting in Casablanca, Morocco with the novelist Yasmine Chami
Born in Casablanca, Yasmine Chami, who did all her training in France, graduating in social sciences among other things, published her first novel Cérémonie in 1999 with Actes Sud. After…