Tag: writing
At the source of writing with Marie-Hélène Lafon
/ Podcasts / In person(s) ” The source, it flows, it’s open, it’s fluid, it’s inexhaustible, it doesn’t sink into opaque and definitively unexplored zones. The older I get, the…
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,…
Erik Orsenna: “When writing about Bolloré, I expect everything, and I will respond”
Retirement, what retirement ? At 75, Erik Orsenna smiles behind his white mustache, he who combines the missions (ambassador of the Institut Pasteur, president of an international association for the…
Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba, writing and fighting before the planet burns
In 2013, Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba left her job, her home and her family in Montreal, and settled in a wooden cabin in the Kamouraska region of Quebec. She spent three years…
Literature: “Mecano” by Mattia Filice, the art of writing the train
/ Podcasts / In person(s) Mattia Filice’s novel marries the railway rhythm and landscape, transmutes the industrial universe of the train, machines and stations into romantic prowess, in a diverted…
Inclusive writing, cancel culture… How to respond to your woke child
Banal story of a day spent on the benches of the university. On the menu: “zoopoetics” and “eco-literature” criticism of “Western, white, heterosexual and patriarchal” literature… Faced with the interest…
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…
In Chile, the Senate gives the green light for the writing of a new Constitution
Last September, the population rejected by referendum a proposed text drafted by a constituent assembly and which could have replaced the current Constitution written under the dictatorship. Since then, the…
Leonardo Padura, living and writing in Cuba
In ” Water everywhere, living and writing in Cuba », Leonardo Padura, one of the greatest contemporary Spanish-language authors, looks back on his career as a Cuban writer. Through a…
SaiPa CEO Jussi Markkanen vented his feelings by writing about the team’s crushing loss on social media: “Unforgivable”
SaiPa lost to HPK in the home match with 2–8 goals. According to Markkanen, both the management and the players must make sure that Wednesday’s performance does not repeat itself.…