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Coma

by Pierre Guyotat

Pierre Guyotat is a survivor. He has experienced many hardships, which have fueled a writing in which violence, war, and death are ubiquitous. Guyotat has pushed the limits of language to its boundaries, to the invention of another language.
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From June 4th to June 8th, Paris will host the first edition of the Paris literary festival. Paris, with its countless libraries, antique booksellers, bookstores, and publishing companies, has always been welcoming to writers from all over the world, stimulating their creativity and inspiring brilliant works. Through readings, happenings, workshops, literary balls and concerts, Paris will explore writing in all its forms, in a shared and lively dialogue.

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Gallica, an online encyclopedic library, grants access to multiple media: printed monographies, periodicals and newspapers, manuscripts, recordings, iconographic documents, maps, and charts. Gallica is the most advanced Internetresource for digitalised French literary collections.


  
 
José Pliya
José Pliya



Francophone playwright José Pliya has a dense scenic and dramatic background. His plays, bearing an “exogenous glance” on social and cultural realities, in the Caribbean in particular, are performed worldwide. His writing reflects his personal experience of migration and miscegenation.
 
 
French Voices and Hemingway grant

• French Voices 2009 More...
The deadline for submitting an application is March 31, 2009 


• Hemingway Grant 2009
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The deadline for submitting an application is July 20, 2009.

• New talent in translation
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Results of the translation Prize 2008 !

  

 
 
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