The author and academician Dany Laferrière as a child

The author and academician Dany Laferriere as a child

On the occasion of the Week of the French language and the Francophonie: from Villers-Cotterêts to Abidjan, French, a plural language!

In The Watching Child, the narrator is a little boy who lives in a poor neighborhood of the Haitian capital. He will befriend a former teacher, dismissed from a school for girls for an unknown reason.

Guest : Dany Laferrière, French author and academician of Haitian origin, born in Port-au-Prince, Prix Médicis 2009 for his novel The Riddle of the Return. The new The child who watches was published by Grasset on March 9th.

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