Tag: Writing paths
In the quicksand of memory, with Mozambican Mia Couto (2/2)
It is in the city of Beira, on the coast of Mozambique, that the action of the new novel by Mia Couto, the leading writer of her country, takes place.…
Revisiting the darkness of colonial Mozambique, with Portuguese-speaking Mia Couto (1/2)
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…
The quest for the lost and found language, with Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Winner of the 2020 Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie for her first novel, the Franco-Rwandan Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse has established herself as one of the major voices of…
Surveying the bitter chasms of black America, with Leila Mottley
Barely out of adolescence, the American Leila Mottley imposes herself with an ambitious first novel, which brilliantly mixes fiction and reality, romantic intrigue and a taste for words and metaphors.…
In the company of books, with the Tunisian Yamen Manaï
An engineer by training, the Tunisian Yamen Manaï chose literature to express his revolts, his frustrations and his despair in the face of the excesses of the world. At 40,…
In the gears of colonial conquest in Madagascar, with Michèle Rakotoson
In his new novel Ambatomanga, the Malagasy novelist Michèle Rakotoson recounts the colonial conquest of her country in the 19th century, revisiting through fiction the brutalities and devastation from which…
In the hubbub of the world, with Mabrouck Rachedi
It was by publishing, in 2006, his first novel The weight of a soul, a jubilant moral tale, which Mabrouck Rachedi made known. His new opus, All the words we…
“Mr. Loverman” by Bernardine Evaristo, activist storyteller
Winner of the Booker Prize 2019 with his masterful girl, woman, other, Bernardine Evaristo dominates British literature with her delightfully subversive writing. The publication in French translation this year of…
Abdulrazak Gurnah: “Nobody influenced me” (2/2)
British writer of Zanzibarite origin, Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. In this second part of the column “ Writing paths dedicated to the winner, the writer…
Sailing between hell and paradise in pre-colonial Africa, with Abdulrazak Gurnah
Originally from Zanzibar, the Briton Abdulrazak Gurnah is the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature. He is the author of a dozen novels, volumes of short stories and literary essays. The…