jeans cette série, nous demandons aux auteurs, aux écrivains du Guardian et aux lecteurs de partager ce qu’ils ont lu récemment. Ce mois-ci, les recommandations incluent un roman présélectionné par Booker, d’excellentes nouvelles et des mémoires sincères. Dites-nous dans les commentaires ce que vous avez lu. Tim, lecteur Guardian De petites choses comme celles-ci de … Read more
Leila SlimaniPrix Goncourt 2016 for Soft song (Gallimard) is the first French woman to chair the prestigious British International Booker Prize, for the 2023 edition. The country of others whose second opus was released by Gallimard in February. The 2023 jury is also made up of the British Uilleam Blackerthe main translator of works in … Read more
LA SÉLECTION DU FIGARO – Découvrez les dix livres à lire et à offrir pour Noël, choisis par la rédaction. Une Brontë en Pléiade La postérité n’a gardé de Charlotte Brontë qu’un roman, l’immense Jane Eyre. Il faudrait pourtant rappeler qu’elle fut aussi l’auteur d’autres grands livres (Le Professeur fut édité à titre posthume). L’édition … Read more
A la radio sur France Inter, Sonia Devillers a l’habitude de faire vivre les histoires qui cernent et révèlent l’histoire. Elle porte elle-même celle de ses grands-parents maternels, partis de la Roumanie communiste et arrivés à Paris en décembre 1961. Non pas déportés, mais « exportés » parce que juifs, contre du bétail et du matériel agricole. Une … Read more
«Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow», de Gabrielle Zevin, élu meilleur livre de l’année 2022 Aujourd’hui, les Amazon Books Editors ont annoncé leur sélection des meilleurs livres de 2022 et désigné le roman de Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, meilleur livre de l’année. Cette liste annuelle d’ouvrages triés sur … Read more
Weekly Books: Your book presents several maps of the world of Black leopard, red wolfmade by you, do you have other talents? Marlon James: Oh my god, I hope (laughs). To make these cards, I had to relearn how to use Photoshop. I was a graphic designer, illustrator and art director, notably for singer Sean … Read more
Toxic masculinity, alcoholism, poverty, violence… Shuggie Bath addresses several themes, what is the central message? Love! The message is how love endures when attacked on multiple fronts. One cannot write a book on the Glasgow of 1899 without mentioning the political aspect. There is unemployment, poverty, violence, misogyny and homophobia… But they are just there … Read more
The Parisian bookstore L’impromptu is launching two new literary awards. To celebrate its three years of existence, it announced that it was consolidating its desire to “promote literature in all its forms” with the creation of the impromptu prize for the first international novel and the impromptu prize for the Parisian novel. For this first … Read more
The photo albums feed the fiction, we see loved ones there at ages when we didn’t yet exist, we project their lives without us. Photo albums are never so romantic as when the photographs are missing, or the memories silenced. Olivier Liron is not without images from the time when his mother was born and … Read more
The jury for the German Novel Prize chose from 233 titles (a record) released between October 2021 and September 2022, which he reviewed, his list of 20 nominees. A new selection will be made public on September 20 and will reduce the finalists for the prize to six. The winner will be announced on October … Read more