Tag: Writing paths
Literature: between marginality and flashes, with the Afro-German poet May Ayim
Marked with the seal of indocility and melancholy, the poetry of the Afro-German May Ayim enchanted the American Audre Lorde and the Frenchwoman Maryse Condé. “Blues in black and white”…
The storm, José Eduardo Agualusa version
The Angolan José Eduardo Agualusa is one of the great voices of Portuguese-speaking African letters. Since his first novel published in 1989, he has built, book after book, a work…
The “true lie” of the Congolese Éric Mukendi
My two dads is Eric Mukendi’s first novel. French teacher in Rouen, this primo-novelist tells us with a real talent as a storyteller the fortunes and misfortunes of immigration and…
In the world of wizards, sultans and slaves, with the Sudanese Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin
Adored in the Arab world, censored in his country because of his denunciation of the dictatorship in his stories, the Sudanese Abdelzaziz Baraka Sakin asserts himself as a major voice…
Literature: the art of being a pirate, with Seynabou Sonko
Djinns is the first novel by Franco-Senegalese Seynabou Sonko. Singer, interpreter, this primo-novelist not quite thirty years old entered literature through music and song. There is a lot of poetry…
Literature: writing or life, according to Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (2/2)
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo is Madagascar’s greatest poet. In this second part of the chronicle “Writing paths” devoted to the biography of this writer and poet published by the researcher Claire Riffard,…
The two loves of Malagasy Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (1)
Between French and his Malagasy language, his heart swayed for a long time. He eventually wrote in both languages. An immense writer from the beginning of the last century, Rabearivelo…
In search of paradise lost, with South African Karel Schoeman
The South African Karel Schoeman is the author of fifteen novels, but the man was also a historian, biographer and translator. Seven of his novels have been translated into French,…
Revisiting the darkness of colonial Mozambique, with Portuguese-speaking Mia Couto
A great name in contemporary African Portuguese letters, Mia Couto writes for ” teach readers to dream “. Journalist, poet, novelist, columnist, storyteller, he is the author of a sumptuous…
Reflecting on the mystery of writing, with Mauritian Ananda Devi
We no longer present Ananda Devi. A major figure in the French-speaking literary world, this Mauritian-born novelist is the author of some twenty books including novels, collections of short stories…