Special envoy to La Rochelle
"To write is to breathe."
Or maybe the other way around. For Hyam Yared, there is no book without oxygen. However, it is sorely lacking in its little Lebanon in apnea.
“When we reduce our existence to queuing for hours for a single can of gasoline, when elsewhere we queue to go to the museum, what place is there for culture and literature? However, they are so vital, ”
insists the Lebanese novelist, obsessed by this need to tell her country with the ink of her ills.
During a maddened summer, she found refuge at the Intermondes Center in La Rochelle.
The port city opens its doors to it as part of a program launched by the French Institute in Beirut to support Lebanese artists affected by the explosion of August 4, 2020 - and whose title, "Nafas" (
"breath"
in Arabic), finds all its meaning.
The opportunity to complete his new novel
Implosions
(which appears at the end of August by Éditions Équateurs) written in
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