Etiket: Literature
The Booksellers’ Prizes unveiled for children’s literature
The youth winners of the 2022 Booksellers Awards were announced Thursday morning. The novelist Fanny Britt notably won honors in the category of best Quebec comic strip with Truffle. Third…
Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, will publish a new book next November
The legendary American singer Bob Dylan, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2016, will publish a new book in November, his publisher, Simon and Schuster, announced on March 8. The Philosophy…
Children’s literature: our suggestions | The Press
Some suggestions for youth books for toddlers, children and teenagers. Posted yesterday at 10:00 a.m. Veronique Larocque The Press For the little ones: a funny companion What’s hiding in Papi’s…
Literature | On the bedside table of… Édith Cochrane
Twice a month, a public figure tells us what he is reading at the moment. This week, host and actress Édith Cochrane. Posted at 8:00 a.m. Laila Maalouf The Press…
Literature | On the bedside table of… Marie-Maude Denis
Twice a month, a public figure tells us what he is reading at the moment. This week, the journalist and host of the show Investigation Marie Maude Denis. Posted at…
Literature | Read a Nobel Prize 20 years later
Abdulrazak Gurnah’s work was relatively unknown to French-speaking readers when the British writer was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature last fall. Only three of his ten novels had been…
Literature: the contagious success of Quebec books
Quebec bookstores have achieved a feat. With five and a half weeks of business closures, the book sales growth virus continued to advance, reaching 16.3% in 2021. Literature here is…
Education: digital literature triumphs in schools
The school term which has just ended was the first where Biblius, the platform which allows the loan of digital books in school libraries in Quebec, was accessible to 99%…
Our essentials in foreign and French literature
Countless translations have arrived in French this year, from well-established authors, but also from new feathers that we can’t wait to reread. And in France, chance made sure that five…
Joan Didion, a leading figure in the literature of the real, is no longer
She was one of the leading figures of the new journalism, a profession many embarked on after reading her brilliant prose. Award-winning author, respected intellectual, American Joan Didion died on…
Literature: new batch of poetic archives online
You want to (re) see the Solstice of Quebec poetry of 1976, with Nicole Brossard, Gaston Miron, Renaud Longchamps, Josée Yvon and Louis Geoffroy? Now you can, in two or…
Literature: when great voices shine
On the pages of the beautiful books of the new collection Les grandesœurs, the words of David Goudreault and Raymond Lévesque escape, run on the walls or jump in the…
African literature | The quiet rise of Damon Galgut
(Cape Town) Amidst works of art and old typewriters, the hand-bound copy of The Promise, by South African author Damon Galgut, winner of the prestigious Booker Prize last month, sits…
the Nobel Prize for Literature denounces the inhuman response of London and Paris
“There is something quite inhumane, I think, in the response of these two governments,” Abdulrazak Gurnah said at a press conference on Tuesday. Article written by Posted the 12/07/2021 19:11…
London | Abdulrazak Gurnah receives his Nobel Prize for Literature
(London) Nobel Laureate in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah received the most prestigious literary prize on Monday for his stories on immigration and colonization, during a ceremony in the United Kingdom where…
Tanzanian Abdulrazak Gurnah receives prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature in London
Nobel Laureate in Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah receives this Monday, December 6 the most prestigious literary prizes for his stories on immigration and colonization, during a ceremony in the United Kingdom…
Literature to the rescue of the animal kingdom
A simple visit to the Harvard Natural History Museum is enough to remind us of the scale of the disaster: above the records of a very large number of animal…
Literature: an “iel” as old as native cultures
By closing the book Noopiming, by Anichinabe author Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, it is still unclear whether the characters in the book are female or male. Over the pages, it is…
Youth literature | A literary caravan in Quebec
A teacher from Quebec has found an original way to interest children in reading. Catherine Lapointe has converted her Westfalia caravan into an ephemeral library. Press visited this unique facility…
The most secret memory of men | For the love of literature
The novel by Senegalese Mohamed Mbougar Sarr made history on November 3 by winning the prestigious Goncourt Prize. The most secret memory of men is an ambitious story that shamelessly…