While the interest and even the enthusiasm of the French for literatures from elsewhere cannot be denied, publishing houses have once again reduced their production, with some 140 novels translated from abroad, against more than 200 there are still ten years, and even 229 novelties listed in 2009. And this while the emergence of new talents continues to be confirmed, mainly in the Hispanic world, in Scandinavia and in central and eastern Europe.
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Once again, the domination of the Anglo-Saxon domain is confirmed, in particular that of North American literature.
Among the most anticipated confirmed novelists, it will be necessary to count on Richard Ford, the author of
Independence
, who, at 77, returns with a collection of nine short stories,
Nothing to declare
(original title:
Sorry for Your Trouble
, at L 'Olivier), taking us from New York to Dublin via Paris.
And on Richard Powers, who publishes an ecological novel about the father-son relationship,
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