L'émigrante de classe: Annie Ernaux et Kjerstin Aukrust
En octobre 2022, Annie Ernaux a reçu le prix Nobel de littérature, en tant que première femme française, « pour le courage et l'acuité clinique avec lesquels elle découvre les racines, les étrangetés ...
29 Sep 202556min
The Break with the West: Omar El Akkad and Yohan Shanmugaratnam
«The moral component of history, the most necessary component, is simply a single questions, asked over and over again: When it mattered, who sided with justice and who sided with power?» One Day, Eve...
22 Sep 20251h 7min
The Storyteller of Sisterhood: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Jessika Gedin
When Nigerian author Chimamanda Adichie publishes her first novel in 12 years, it is a real event. With award winning and critically acclaimed titles such as Americanah, Half of a Yellow Sun and We Sh...
1 Sep 20251h 4min
My African Reading List: Wole Talabi
Wole Talabi is a Nigerian science fiction author. He is best known for his short stories, most of them collected in the collections Incomplete Solutions and Convergence Problems. His latest novel Shig...
25 Aug 202532min
The many lives of Amna: Youssef Rakha and Teresa Pepe
Youssef Rakha is an award-winning author of both novels and poetry, as well as a journalist and a photographer. I 2009, he was selected by the Hay Festival as one of the best Arabic writers under 40. ...
11 Aug 202556min
Monsters and Dystopias: New Arabic Literature
What characterizes the new Arabic literature? Writers involved in the Arab Spring are now imprisoned, exiled or living with the political repression, wars and disillusionment that has marked the regio...
30 Jun 202547min
Liberation and Revolution: Slimani, Rakha and Habiballah
The Arab Spring is when Egyptian Youssef Rakha first starts writing novels. Moroccan Soukaina Habiballah publishes her first poetry collection shortly after, while French Moroccan Leïla Slimani works ...
16 Jun 20251h 9min
Diary of a Thief: Abdulrazak Gurnah og Nadifa Mohamed
Abdulrazak Gurnah was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 2021, as the first African-born writer in almost 20 years, for having, in the jury’s reasong, «highlighted the impact of colonialism and ...
9 Jun 202552min
