Tag: writer
a trip to the heart of the Tanala forest with the writer Hery Mahavanona
In Madagascar, “La nage du porter de feu” is the title of the latest work by the Malagasy poet and novelist Hery Mahavanona. This writer with multiple lives, a retired…
Olivia Rosenthal: “When you’re a writer, you’re used to being desperate”
Olivia Rosenthal is in the running for the Prix Médicis with her book entitled A monkey at my window, published by Verticales. The tale of a trip to Japan where…
“The Cartographer of Absences”, new novel by Mozambican writer Mia Couto
He is one of the greatest writers in the Portuguese language, his name has circulated for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Mozambican Mia Couto publishes The Cartographer of Absences. This…
Death of the French writer Jean Teulé, great enemy of boredom
Jean Teulé, a self-taught writer who became very popular as a TV columnist in the 1990s, died on Tuesday October 18 at the age of 69. According to a press…
Marc Dugain, the writer who loved spies
After having lived the first seven years of his life in Senegal, Marc Dugain returned to France with his parents. At 35, he wrote his first novel, The Officers’ Room…
Miguel Bonnefoy, the solar writer highlights an inventor of the shadows
In 2013, “Young Writer” prize with Icarus and other short stories (Buchet-Chastel), Miguel Bonnefoy is the author of a multi-award winning work: Octavio’s Journey (2015, Five Continents Prize – special…
the writer Daniel de Roulet recounts the exiles of Swiss history
The Douarnenez festival, in Brittany, includes films but also books to explore the chosen theme, in this case this year the “underground Helvetians”. The French-speaking Swiss writer Daniel de Roulet…
Writer Selman Rushdie was attacked in New York!
Selman Rushdie (75), the author of the book “The Satanic Verses”, was attacked at a conference in New York. According to eyewitnesses, Rushdie, who was on stage to give a…
Ubah Farah, Somali and Italian writer, back from Mogadishu
Poetess and hyper-sensitive writer, Ubah Farah lives between Brussels and the many countries where she is called for writing residencies or literary festivals. His recent return to Mogadishu, after 31…
Albert Camus, “The Stranger” or the Algerian writer?
Sixty years after the declaration of independence of Algeria, Albert Camus, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, born in Mondovi (today Dréan), is he considered an Algerian writer in his…