Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, poet, publisher and professor of French literature at Ucla.
Artistic director of the festival “Atlantide.
Words from the world ”and director of the Points Poésie collection, in 2016 he was the first guest writer to hold the Chair of Artistic Creation at the Collège de France.
The Prix Renaudot 2006, author of
Rumeurs d'Amérique
(Plon), is well placed to shed light on recent controversies.
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Interview on the occasion of the publication of two reference books on Aimé Césaire.
A biography of Kora Véron, which paints the total and striking portrait of the father of negritude.
And a book of interviews conducted over nearly a quarter of a century by Marijosé Alie, which reveals the intimacy of the “fundamental negro” who has marked contemporary literature.
LE FIGARO.
- You live between France and the United States, you closely follow what is being said about literature and controversies
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