Tag: Writing paths
René Depestre, between poetry and revolution
We know René Depestre poet, essayist, novelist, Renaudot Prize 1988 for his novel Hadriana in all my dreams. Coming to literature through poetry, the man was also a political activist,…
Elgas: “Sembène empowered his readers”
On the occasion of the reissue of Sembène Ousmane’s novel O country, my beautiful people, Way of writing interviewed the young Senegalese writer Elgas on the romantic art of his…
In the frenzy of the round, with the Franco-Comorian Nassuf Djailani
Nassuf Djailani came to literature through poetry. His new collection of poetry Daïra pour la mer, which has just been published by Bruno Doucey editions, is an invitation to travel,…
In the hustle and bustle of colonial Kenya, with Ngugi wa Thiong’o (2/2)
” Dreaming in times of war is the French title of the childhood memories of novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Octogenarian, the writer restores in this first volume of…
Between testimony and confession, with the Franco-Moroccan Habiba Benhayoune
Testimony ? Confessions? Autofiction? Difficult to locate Berber heart, this second novel by the Franco-Moroccan Habiba Benhayoune. Daughter of a Berber fisherman, the author looks back on her childhood marked…
In search of unconditional love, with Anglo-Ghanaian Caleb Azumah Nelson
Caleb Azumah Nelson is an Anglo-Ghanaian writer born in 1993. In his first novel Open Water translated into French this fall, it tells a love story like no other with…
Between quests and excesses, with the Haitian Makenzy Orcel (2/2)
Makenzy Orcel’s new novel A human sum is in the spotlight in this second part of the literary chronicle Chemins d’Ecriture dedicated to this Haitian writer. This sumptuous and dark…
In the poetic belly of the world, with the Haitian Makenzy Orcel (1/2)
Haitian author Makenzy Orcel rose to prominence by publishing his first novel The Immortals in which he pays tribute to the Haitian prostitutes who died during the 2010 earthquake. In…
A wandering in the margins of contemporary France, with Nadia Yala Kisukidi
Franco-Congolese, Nadia Yala Kisukidi is a rising figure in African philosophy. Fascinated by novelistic writing, the philosopher delivers with Dissociation, his first novel published this fall, a very noticeable swerve…
Between literature and politics, with the Ivorian Gauz’
In 2014, the Ivorian Gauz’ took the literary world by storm with Standing Paid, a debut novel that reads like a fierce satire of consumer society seen through the eyes…