Tag: Novelist
The Ivorian poet, philosopher and novelist Tanella Boni
Since the early 1980s, Tanella Boni, who has taught philosophy in Abidjan, has striven to understand the world through all forms of writing. Poet and novelist acclaimed throughout the world,…
Literature: Rwandan novelist Dominique Celis recounts post-genocide society
Thus men cry is the first novel by the Belgian-Rwandan Dominique Celis, published last year. An epistolary story, eminently sensitive and powerful, which puts the Rwandan tragedy back on the…
Chantal Pelletier, the novelist who loved cinema
A traveler in writing as in life, Chantal Pelletier navigates happily from short stories to thrillers, from theater (she was one of the “Trois Jeanne”) to novels. After having already…
Sedef Ecer (Turkish novelist): “The scale of the participation in the elections is a lesson in democracy”
Presidential election in Turkey, a second round is needed to decide between the two candidates in pole position, the outgoing president Reçep Tayyip Erdogan (49%) and his competitor, the social…
Utopia according to Sierra Leonean novelist Ishmael Beah
A former child soldier, Sierra Leonean Ishmael Beah made a name for himself by publishing The Road Traveled, a poignant autobiographical account of the civil war, its darkness and its…
From writing to image, the novelist Alice Zeniter takes the plunge for a first feature film
/ Podcasts / Cultural guest After winning the Goncourt prize for high school students in 2017 for the art of losing, Alice Zeniter launches into the cinema. His first feature…
Mélissa Da Costa, the most widely read novelist in France, is releasing a new novel
/ Podcasts / Cultural guest Women from the End of the World is the title of his 6th book just released. At only 32 years old, Mélissa Da Costa has…
Jennifer Haigh, an American novelist in the reconquest of women’s rights
Jennifer Haigh was born in 1968 in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania. She studied in France and first turned to journalism, before devoting herself to literature. She wrote her first novel while living…
Best-selling novelist Françoise Bourdin has died
The successful novelist Françoise Bourdin, one of the most read in France with more than 15 million books sold, died Sunday at the age of 70, announced this Monday, December…
Death of French novelist Françoise Bourdin at the age of 70
Best-selling novelist Françoise Bourdin, one of the most widely read authors in France with more than 15 million books sold, died on Sunday December 25. Françoise Bourdin, born in 1952…