Tag: Writing paths
At the crossroads of the worlds, with the first-time novelist Walid Hajar Rachedi
Franco-Algerian, Walid Hajar Rachedi delivers, with What am I going to do in paradise? a promising first novel. Half-autofiction, half “road-novel”, this book tells the initiatory quest of its central…
The origins of Algerian literature: five questions to Hervé Sanson
Hervé Sanson is a specialist in Maghreb literature. It recounts the conditions of emergence of French-speaking Algerian literature in the 1950s as the country plunged into a brutal war of…
In the heat and dust of black London, with Bernardine Evaristo
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 of Mr Lovermanone…
Exploring the fortunes and misfortunes of exile, with the Anglo-Congolese JJ Bola
Born in the DRC and now living in London, JJ Bola is the rising star of what is called the ” black british literature “. Entering literature through poetry, the…