Born in Tours in 1964, Stéphane Audeguy has taught the history of cinema and of the Arts. He is the author of seven books, for which he has been awarded a number of important literary prizes, namely La théorie de nuages (Gallimard) and Fils unique (Gallimard). His latest book, Nous autres, plunges the reader into the middle of the Kenyan countryside, in an Africa which is far removed from the usual clichés.

Bibliography: Nous autres (Gallimard ) In Memoriam (Le Promeneur )

Stéphane Audeguy will participate in:
« The power of nature » , round-table, Saturday 30 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.
« A novelist at the museum » , breakfast, Sunday 31 May, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Audeguy_Stéphane.pdf

Eric Banks (USA) is a journalist working in New York. He has been chief editor of Bookforum and director of Artforum. He has contributed to numerous different publications, notably The New York Times, Slate and The Guardian. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle.

Alain Beuve-Méry is a journalist for both the French and the international edition of the Monde des Livres. He is also a reviewer for the radio programme, Masse critique, dedicated to the cultural industry and hosted by Frédéric Martel on France Culture.

www.lemonde.fr

The short story writer and novelist, Neil Bissoondath, was born in Trinidad in 1955. He emigrated to Canada in 1973 and has been living in Quebec for the several years now. He is the author of several novels and short-story collections, as well as of a powerful essay on Canadian multiculturalism, Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada. Several of his novels explore the theme of insularity, such as his novel, The Unyielding Clamour of the Night, where an imaginary island, covered by a luxuriant tropical forest, is the site of bloody clashes between a state army and rebels who are fighting for their independence.

Bibliography: La Clameur des ténèbres (Boréal )

Neil Bissoondath will participate in:
« Neil Bissoondath reads : La Clameur des ténèbres (Phébus, 2007) » , reading in the original version, Friday 29 May, Librairie "Raconte-moi la Terre" - Lyon 2ème.
« The power of nature » , round-table, Saturday 30 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.
« "Night looneys" #3: "World literature?", they say... » , night looneys, Thursday 28 May, Les Subsistances - Quai des Arts.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Bissoondath_Neil.pdf

Born in Moravia (now the Czech Republic) in 1931, Alfred Brendel is above all known for being one of the classical pianists whose work – performing Beethoven, Liszt and Brahms – has been the most widely acclaimed. He is easily recognisable by his gangly appearance, his big glasses, his sense of humour which is omnipresent on stage and in his poems, and by his subtle interplay of wittiness and sensitivity. All of these qualities make Alfred Brendel a virtuoso, one of the grand masters of piano at the beginning of the 21st Century. In 2007, he was awarded the prize “Une vie en musique - Arthur Rubinstein”, the equivalent of what would be a Nobel Prize for music. He is also passionate about painting, literature and poetry. He has published two collections of poems, notably Une aile blanche et l’autre noire, in which his brilliant sense of humour is clearly revealed.

Bibliography: Une aile blanche et l'autre noire (Christian Bourgois )

Alfred Brendel will participate in:
« Words and notes » , interview, Saturday 30 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Brendel_Alfred.pdf

Depuis 2003, Anne Brunswic a voyagé en Palestine, en Russie et en Bosnie.

Ses reportages ont été accueillis dans La Pensée de midi, La Lettre internationale, Le Journal des lointains et sur la Radio Suisse romande. À Paris, elle partage son temps entre l’enseignement, la critique de cinéma et l’écriture. Elle est notamment l’auteur de : Bienvenue en Palestine, chroniques d’une saison à Ramallah (Actes Sud, 2004 - prix RFI Témoin du monde 2004) et Sibérie, un voyage au pays des femmes (Actes Sud, 2006).

Bibliography: Les eaux glacées du Belomorkanal (Actes Sud, 2009 )

Anne Brunswic will participate in:
« "Narrative non-fiction" : The literary investigation » , round-table, Sunday 31 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

John Burnside, novelist and poet, was born in Scotland in 1955. In A Lie About My Father, he brings his tyrannical father, a compulsive liar and violent alcoholic, back to life. Through this startling portrait, he revisits the torments of his own childhood and his time spent in a psychiatric home. With this dazzling book about lies, father-son relations and identity, John Burnside once again reveals the full extent of his talent. A true masterpiece!

Bibliography: Un mensonge sur mon père (Métailié )

John Burnside will participate in:
« Writing and identity? What room for psychology? » , round-table, Sunday 31 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Burnside_John.pdf

David Castillo (Spain), is a poet, novelist and journalist. He has won numerous prizes for his journalistic and literary work. From 1989 to 2008 he directed the cultural supplement of the Catalan newspaper Avui. He has recently published a collection of poems, Downtown (Icaria) and a collection of interviews: Conversaciones con José Pepín Bello (Anagrama).

Camille de Toledo, writer and film-maker, was born in Lyon in 1976. Author of a much acclaimed essay, Archimondain Jolipunk (Calmann-Levy, 2002), he advances a new aesthetic, the reverse of cynicism and derision. In 2004, he undertook his “Artifical Tetralogy”, which paints a picture of the world on the edge of imitation: uprooted people, jeux de double, permanent interaction between life and fiction. Two of the four books planned have been published by Verticales: L’inversion de Hieronymus Bosch and Vies et mort d’un terroriste américain. In October 2008, he published an essay with PUF, Visiter le Flurkistan ou les illusion de la littérature monde. This audacious text is a critique of the ‘Manifesto by 44 Writers for World Literature’.

Bibliography: Visiter le Flurkistan ou les illusions de la littérature monde (PUF )

Camille De Toledo will participate in:
« "Night looneys" #3: "World literature?", they say... » , night looneys, Thursday 28 May, Les Subsistances - Quai des Arts.

Arielle Dombasle will participate in:
« "Caprice" : Marguerite Duras unknown » , reading, Sunday 31 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Ingrid Elam (Sweden) has been working as a freelance journalist (for newspapers, radio and television) since the 1970s. She is a senior lecturer in comparative literature at Malmö University and, from 1989 to 2000, she was responsible for the Arts pages of three different Swedish dailies, notably Göteborgs-tidningen and Dagens Nyheter.

Julia Escobar (Madrid, 24 juillet 1946) a fait ses études au Lycée Français de Madrid et à la Universidad Complutense (Diplôme en Langues classiques). Elle est écrivain (4 romans et 3 recueils de poésie), traductrice du français et du portugais (Rimbaud, Francis Ponge, Edmond Jabès, Henri Michaux, Colette, Jules Verne, Marcel Cohen, Amin Malouf, Max Gallo, Denis Diderot, Fernando Pessoa, Almada Negreiros, Machado de Assís, etc.…), critique littéraire et journaliste. Elle a publié aussi des essais théoriques sur la traduction 

En tant que critique littéraire (notamment de littérature en langue française) elle collabore habituellement dans des journaux et des revues littéraires, à la Radio et a la Télévision. Actuellement, elle est Directrice de Programmation de la Casa de América, à Madrid. 

Elle a été aussi éditrice littéraire et libraire, ainsi que Présidente de l’Association Professionnelle Espagnole de Traducteurs et Interprètes (APETI) et de la Fundación Consuelo Berges (1993-1997), institution culturelle ayant pour but l’encouragement de la traduction en espagnol d’auteurs de langue française. 

Elle a été professeur de traduction littéraire (français-espagnol) à la Universidad Europea de Madrid et à la Universidad Complutense. Elle a fait de nombreux séjours au Collège des Traducteurs Littéraires de Seneffe et à celui de Arles et animé plusieurs ateliers au C.E.T.L de Bruxelles et ailleurs, ainsi que participé à des jurys espagnols et internationaux de prix littéraires et de traduction. 

Prix Francisco de Quevedo de Poésie, Madrid, 1983

Prix Stendhal de Traduction, Madrid, 2000  

Prix Juan Rulfo de Traduction,  Paris, 2001

Le roman de Colette, La chatte, dont elle est la traductrice, vient de recevoir le prix à la meilleure édition 2008 (Colette, La gata, Editorial Norte-Sur, Barcelona, 2008).

Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettre

Julia Escobar will participate in:
« Withstanding the test of re-translation » , round-table, Sunday 31 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Meike Fessmann (Germany) was born in Munich in 1961. After studying German, Philosophy and Theatre, she wrote a thesis on Else Lasker-Schüler. She is an independent critic for several Berlin newspapers notably Süddeutsche Zeitung and Tagesspiegel. In 2006, she was awarded the Alfred- Kerr literary award. Last year, she was a member of the jury for the German book prize.

Jérôme Gautheret joined Le Monde in 2004. He was editor of the Monde des Livres from 2005 until January 2009 when he joined the "décryptages" team whilst still contributing to the ‘essais’ pages of the newspaper.

www.lemonde.fr

A journalist, writer and screen-writer, Sergio González Rodríguez was born in Mexico in 1950 where he still lives today. After the publication of several essays and novels, he has just written a nonfiction novel, a study of one of the most astounding criminal mysteries of all time – that of the unsolved murder of hundreds of women in the border town of Ciudad Juarez. Des os dans le désert shows us another side of the world, the underside of a corrupt Mexico where the most destitute fight against conspiracy.

Bibliography: Des os dans le désert (Passage du Nord-Ouest )

Sergio González Rodríguez will participate in:
« The Bar association of Lyon invite Sergio González Rodríguez » , meeting, Friday 29 May, Nouveau Palais de Justice de Lyon.
« "Narrative non-fiction" : The literary investigation » , round-table, Sunday 31 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Gonzales_Rodriguez.pdf

Cécile Guilbert, essayist, novelist and literary critic, is author of work that is as diverse as it is original. Combining a unique freedom of tone and a sharp critical approach, she has no problem addressing the work of Saint-Simon, Guy Debord, Laurence Sterne and, most recently, Andy Warhol. Warhol Spirit (for which she was awarded the Prix Médicis de l'essai) is a rare object in which the style has as much to say as the polymorphous content. It is filled with citations, notes, reflections and dialogues with the work of the polymath artist. In her latest work, Sans entraves et sans temps morts, Cécile Guilbert uses over fifty different texts to develop a very clear vision of the art of writing which involves tasting, reading, seeing, feeling, listening, touching and loving.

Bibliography: Sans entraves et sans temps morts (Gallimard )

Cécile Guilbert will participate in:
« "Night looneys" #1 : "Writing?", she says... » , night looneys, Tuesday 26 May, Les Subsistances - Quai des Arts.
« "L'humeur vagabonde" on France Inter » , france inter radio broadcast, Wednesday 27 May, Les Subsistances - Plateau 2.

Paul Holdengräber (USA) is the Director of LIVE from the NYPL, the Public Programs series at The New York Public Library. Since 2005, he has notably welcomed Margaret Atwood, Tina Brown, Miranda July, Isabelle Allende, Slavoj Zizek, President Bill Clinton, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Salman Rushdie, Edmund White, Günter Grass and Norman Mailer. In 2003, the French government awarded him the Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. During the 2008 Forum, he hosted an exceptional interview with the Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg.

www.nypl.org

Born in Hangzhou in Chine in 1960, Yu Hua was first a dentist before making a name for himself as one of the most talented novelists of contemporary Chinese literature. In his latest novel, Brothers, he paints the portrait of a couple of half-brothers, parallel to describing the China of the past fifty years, including its most bloody tragedies and its most intimate scars. Through these characters, a whole generation is depicted with realism and exactitude.

Bibliography: Brothers (Actes Sud )

Yu Hua will participate in:
« The epic of contemporary China » , debate, Saturday 30 May, Les Subsistances - Hangar Saône.
« Portraits of a generation » , round-table, Saturday 30 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Hua_Yu.pdf

Born to Norwegian immigrants in Minnesota, Siri Hustvedt has written four novels, namely the famous What I Loved. With The Sorrows of an American (2008) she plunges the reader into the inner world of an American psychoanalyst weighed down by family secrets and traumatised by the tragedy of September 11. She brilliantly describes the subconscious of an America attached to its fundamental values and weakened by the great tragedies which afflict it today.

Bibliography: Plaidoyer pour Éros (Actes Sud ) Élégie pour un Américain (Actes Sud )

Siri Hustvedt will participate in:
« Books in which the psychoanalyst is the protagonist » , round-table, Thursday 28 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.
« The bookclub readers of the Progrès invite Siri Hustvedt and Nancy Huston » , meeting, Friday 29 May, Le Progrès - La Confluence.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Hustvedt_Siri.pdf

Lídia Jorge was born in Boliqueim in the Algarve in 1946. She is one of the most important voices of contemporary Portuguese and European literature. Her novels often reflect Portuguese reality through a brilliant psychological analysis of her characters. In Nous combattrons l’ombre, the author places us inside the troubled head of a psychoanalyst who is a victim of his anxieties, weaknesses and obsessions. The writing is intimate and captivating. On the release of the book, Jorge was awarded the Grand Prize of the Portuguese Authors’ Society.

Bibliography: Nous combattrons l'ombre (Métailié )

Lídia Jorge will participate in:
« Discussion with Lidia Jorge » , meeting in a library, Thursday 28 May, Espace Culturel François Mitterand.
« Writing and identity? What room for psychology? » , round-table, Sunday 31 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.
« The inheritance of memory » , round table + france inter broadcast, Wednesday 27 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Jorge_Lidia.pdf

Leslie Kaplan, born in Brooklyn, has been living in France since childhood. Her latest novel, Mon Amérique commence en Pologne, is the sixth installment of her series, Depuis Maintenant, started in 1996. This abounding autobiographical journey is divided into three different periods: childhood, the 1960s and ‘not so long ago’. From America (land of milk and honey) to the social upheaval of the 1960s, from Paris to Brooklyn, from the 1960s to the beginning of the 21st Century, this is a dazzling and breathtaking journey through the frenzy of living..

Bibliography: Mon Amérique commence en Pologne (P.O.L )

Leslie Kaplan will participate in:
« Portraits of a generation » , round-table, Saturday 30 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Born in London to an English mother and a Pakistani father, Hanif Kureishi is one of the writers who has helped to breathe new life into English literature. For the past twenty years, his novels and films have dealt with issue such as English pop culture, immigration, the quest for identity and relations between men and women. His latest novel features a neurotic psychoanalyst in his fifties who manipulates his subconscious and that of his patients in an attempt to understand his past. Something to Tell You (2008) is a jubilatory human comedy.

Bibliography: Quelque chose à te dire (Christian Bourgois, 2009 )

Hanif Kureishi will participate in:
« Books in which the psychoanalyst is the protagonist » , round-table, Thursday 28 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Kureishi_Hanif.pdf

Alexandre Lacroix is Editor-in-Chief of Philosophie Magazine. He teaches litterature at the School of Political Science in Paris. He has also published five novels, notably De la supériorité des femmes (Flammarion) and Premières volontés (Grasset).

www.philomag.com

« Up until now, Claude Lanzmann was famous worldwide for having directed one of the most important films in the history of cinema: Shoah. Once a film-maker, always a film-maker. He is the author of a number of great films (Pourquoi Israël, Tsahal, Sobibor, 14 octobre 1943, 16 heures, etc.), and is director of Temps Modernes, the famous monthly review founded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. Until now, he had never published his memoirs. Le lièvre de Patagonie, just published by Gallimard, is more than a simple book of memories – it is also a literary masterpiece written by one of the most important witnesses of the 20th Century. » 

Bibliography: Le lièvre de Patagonie (Gallimard )

Claude Lanzmann will participate in:
« The eve : The time of watchmen » , interview, Sunday 24 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Toby Litt was born in Bedford (England) in 1968. After writing just four novels, he managed to get himself recognised as one of the big names in English literature. Resolutely inventive, he always surprises the reader by reinventing the style, the register and the setting of each of his books. In his latest novel, Hospital (2007), he impresses us once again with his shadowy and terrifying vision of the world of the hospital where the characters are dysfunctional and malevolent.

Bibliography: Un hôpital d'enfer (Phébus )

Toby Litt will participate in:
« Fantasy and the fanciful : Distortions of reality » , round-table, Friday 29 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Litt_Toby.pdf

Koukla Mac Lehose was born in Athens in 1946. Since 1987, she has been a literary scout. She speaks French, English and Italian fluently and works for a large number of different editors spread across sixteen countries (e.g. Anagrama in Spain, Asa in Portugal, Einaudi in Italy, Gallimard and Denoël in France, Modan in Israel, Knopf and Random House in Canada, and Shanghai 99 in China).

Koukla Mac Lehose will participate in:
« So British! What is the state of British literature today? » , debate, Wednesday 27 May, Villa Gillet.

William Marx, essayist, uses his book Vie du lettré (Munuit, 2009) to tackle the subject of literary history with audacity and humour. He is the author of L’Adieu à la littérature. Histoire d’une dévalorisation (Minuit, 2005) and he has taught literature in the US, Japan and in several universities in France. His research mostly focuses on the history of critical discourse and aesthetic theory. 

Bibliography: Vie du Lettré (Minuit )

William Marx will participate in:
« "Night looneys" #2 : "Men of letters?", you say... » , night looneys, Wednesday 27 May, Les Subsistances - Quai des Arts.

Marion Mazauric, « Chef des diables » au Diable Vauvert, est qualifiée par la presse parisienne d’intrépide, de trublion, de turbulente, voire de guerrière aux cheveux gris acier. Après une brève trajectoire qui l’a conduite d’Actes Sud à Marseille, elle est devenue en 1987 adjointe du directeur littéraire de J’ai lu, Jacques Sadoul, puis directrice littéraire en 1996. Après 13 ans de va et vient entre Paris et Nîmes, elle a décidé de rentrer chez elle pour créer le Diable vauvert, et faire enfin le métier qu’elle aime auprès de, et avec ceux, qu’elle aime.

Marion Mazauric will participate in:
« So British! What is the state of British literature today? » , debate, Wednesday 27 May, Villa Gillet.

Bibliography: Le Script (L’Olivier )

Rick Moody will participate in:
« "L'humeur vagabonde" on France Inter » , france inter radio broadcast, Monday 25 May, Les Subsistances - Plateau 2.
« "Seen from elsewhere" #1 : Antonin Artaud / Rick Moody » , seen from elsewhere, Tuesday 26 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Moody_Rick.pdf

Vaiju Naravane (India), based in Paris, is the European correspondent for the Indian newspaper The Hindu. She was also an editor for Albin Michel, after having been a European correspondent for The Times of India and a bilingual journalist for Radio France Internationale. She has also been Director of Information and Public Relations for the World Health Organisation.

http://www.hindu.com/

Florence Noiville is a journalist with Le Monde and literary critic for the Monde des Livres. She also presents the weekly TV programme, "Le Monde des Livres" on LCI and is responsible for the radio programme "Livres en poche!" on LCI Radio. She is the author of a biography of Isaac Bashevis Singer (Stock, winner of the prix du récit biographique, 2004), a novel, La Donation (Stock, 2007), and of numerous books for children.

www.lemonde.fr

If all of Stewart O’Nan’s novels are marked by violence, they are above all haunted by the necessity to deal with it and to survive alongside it on a daily basis. In The Night Country, a true homage to the masters of the unreal, he combines the supernatural with pop culture, revealing the underside of the American way of life. On Halloween night, in a small town in Connecticut, five teenagers drive a car down dimlyreads roads, lose control of the vehicle and crash into a tree. Hell is not those of the dead but rather those of the survivors who are racked with guilt.

Bibliography: Le pays des ténèbres (L’Olivier )

Stewart O'Nan will participate in:
« How to write violence? » , round-table, Monday 25 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.
« Discussion with Stewart O'Nan » , meeting in a library, Tuesday 26 May, Bibliothèque municipale - Lyon 4ème.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_O_nan_Stewart.pdf

Born in Paris in 1960 to political refugee parents, Sergi Pàmies has chosen to write in Catalan. This writer, whose style is as lively as it is hilarious, plunges the reader into universes far-removed from everyday life. The narration picks up speed and reality becomes twisted as funny and dark tales of the improbable are recounted. Sergi Pàmies takes pleasure in playing with the banality that pushes him into a corner, allowing him to see its fantastic side.

Bibliography: Si tu manges un citron sans faire de grimaces (Jacqueline Chambon )

Sergi Pamiès will participate in:
« Fantasy and the fanciful : Distortions of reality » , round-table, Friday 29 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Pamies_Sergi.pdf

Alain Planès is one of the most talked about pianists of his generation. His career as a soloist has led him to participate in the biggest music festivals worldwide. He is currently working on a production of The Magic Flute, directed by Peter Brook. He has recorded an unabridged version of Shubert’s sonatas for the record label, Harmonia Mundi. As for his recent recordings of Chopin, Haydn and Scarlatti, he has been widely acclaimed by international critics. His latest recording, Debussy – Estampes / Images inédites, is dedicated to Debussy’s entire work for piano solos, for which he has received the acclaim of the Monde de la Musique (who presented him with their ‘CHOC’ award) and the German review, Fono-Forum.

Alain Planès will participate in:
« A great pianist meets a great writer » , literary recital, Monday 25 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Bibliography: Boutès (Galilée, 2009 )

Pascal Quignard will participate in:
« A great pianist meets a great writer » , literary recital, Monday 25 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.
« Once upon a time ... : The tale » , round-table, Tuesday 26 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Quignard_Pascal.pdf

Jørn Riel was born in Denmark in 1931. After having spent sixteen years in Greenland as an ethnographer, he has published more than twenty books, notably his famous Arctic tales. All his fiction is set in the frozen and marvelous landscapes of Greenland, yet it explores darker themes such as those of solitude, extreme cold and survival in this powerful and hostile environment. These days, Jørn Riel lives in Malaysia so that he can ‘thaw out’, as he likes to say.

Bibliography: Le Roi Oscar, quatre racontars arctiques (Gaïa )

Jørn Riel will participate in:
« The power of nature » , round-table, Saturday 30 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Riel_Jorn.pdf

Raphaëlle Rérolle has been a journalist at Le Monde since 1986. She first worked for the ‘société’ section, then for the Monde des Livres, where she was responsible for foreign literature for ten years, and then for Le Monde 2. She participates to the organisation of the Forum. She is currently assistant director at the Monde des Livres.

www.lemonde.fr

Michel Schneider, writer and psychoanalyst, is the author of essays on literature and music as well as fiction. Marilyn dernières séances (prix Interallié - Grasset, 2006) tells the story of the most incongruous couple in Hollywood – Marilyn Monroe and her psychoanalyst, Ralph Greeson. With great elegance, this sumptuous roman puzzle describes the relationship which lasted for the thirty months that preceded her death.

Bibliography: La confusion des sexes (Flammarion )

Michel Schneider will participate in:
« Books in which the psychoanalyst is the protagonist » , round-table, Thursday 28 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Schneider_Michel.pdf

Martine Silber, journalist and blogger, is a former theatre and literary critic for Le Monde. She was its Spanish correspondent from 2002 to 2005. She has always been passionate about literature and the theatre and hosts blogs for a number of different cultural organisations and publications. She will be hosting the Forum’s own blog.

Robert Solé, writer and journalist, directs Le Monde des Livres. He is the author of several novels (Le Tarbouche, Le Sémaphore d’Alexandrie, La Mamelouka, Mazag, all published by Seuil), as well as the non-fictional Dictionnaire amoureux de l’Égypte (Plon) and a number of historical essays on Egypt, his native country.

www.lemonde.fr

Jennifer Szalai (USA) is Senior Editor at Harper's Magazine. She regularly publishes articles in Harper's and in The New York Times Book Review, amongst others.

http://www.harpers.org/

Born in Bogota in 1974, Antonio Ungar was first an architect. Short-story writer and novelist, he now lives in Jaffa in Israel where he is a journalist by profession. Les oreilles du loup, the first of his books to be translated into French, places the reader inside the head of a four-year-old boy caught up in the turmoil of the separation of his parents. His sister and he set out with their mother on a journey through the Columbian jungle, towns and mountains. In this short novel, constructed in fragments, Antonio Ungar brilliantly reproduces the emotions of one’s early years.

Bibliography: Les oreilles du loup (Les Allusifs )

Antonio Ungar will participate in:
« Discussion with Antonio Ungar » , meeting in a library, Wednesday 27 May, Maison du Livre, de l'image et du Son.
« The child's point of view » , round-table, Saturday 30 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Ungar_Antonio.pdf

Bibliography: Aux États-Unis d'Afrique (JC Lattès )

Abdourahman A. Waberi will participate in:
« The inheritance of memory » , round table + france inter broadcast, Wednesday 27 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.
« Discussion with Abdourahman A. Waberi » , meeting in a library, Thursday 28 May, Bibliothèque de Caluire et Cuire.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Waberi.pdf

Julie Wolkenstein, born in 1968, teaches comparative literature at Caen University. In L’Excuse, her fifth novel, she paints a magnificent portrait of an older woman with sensitivity and humour. Picking over her memories, Lise, the narrator, discovers that she did not determine the course of her own life and that her story is actually an exact reproduction of that of a fictional character. As a game of mirrors and connections, L’Excuse is a dazzling live story haunted by the tutelary figure of Henry James.

Bibliography: L'Excuse (P.O.L )

Julie Wolkenstein will participate in:
« Writing and identity? What room for psychology? » , round-table, Sunday 31 May, Les Subsistances - Verrière.

Télécharger le PDF : FICHE_Wolkenstein_Julie.pdf