America
, the American literature festival in Vincennes (Val-de-Marne), returns in September after being canceled in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
This biannual festival, which receives around 70 authors, could not then be held, the strict restrictions on travel making it lose its interest.
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From September 22 to 25, this 10th edition
“will be divided into a hundred debates and thematic meetings”,
indicated the organizers in a press release.
The writers Jonathan Franzen, Louise Erdrich, Richard Ford, Armistead Maupin, Joyce Maynard and Ta-Nehisi Coates are expected, among others.
But also Quebecers, including Kevin Lambert, Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba or Catherine Leroux.
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On October 12, 2022, it will be five hundred and thirty years since Christopher Columbus
“discovered”
America.
On this occasion, Vincennes
"will welcome a large delegation of writers belonging to indigenous communities in Canada and the United States",
added the organization.
With these twenty authors, another story will be approached, that of peoples who almost disappeared.
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Previous editions have been marked by the presence of great names in literature such as Toni Morisson, Nobel Prize for Literature, Bret Easton Ellis, James Ellroy, Margaret Atwood, John Irving and Jay McInerney.
