World Letters Festival: Gironde at the time of literary encounters

This edition, entitled "Lights!", celebrates the vitality of literature through "those little lights from elsewhere that help us think about life, help us stay strong," notes Martine Laval, the festival's literary advisor. It showcases poetic and political texts of all genres (fiction, thrillers, graphic novels, essays, children's literature), creating "a joyful maelstrom of languages ​​and cultures."

The festival will be punctuated by major events in Bordeaux and the Gironde region: an opening night (November 13, 6 p.m.) with Jens Christian Grøndahl at Station Ausone / Mollat ​​bookstore (Bordeaux); a screening (November 16, 11 a.m.) of Heiny Srour's "Leila and the Wolves" (1984), followed by a conversation with author Rim Battal at the Utopia cinema (Bordeaux); and a tribute to Howard Zinn (November 23, 2 p.m.), with the premiere screening of the second Part of the documentary "Howard Zinn, a People's History of America," with co-director Daniel Mermet in attendance at the Utopia Cinema (Bordeaux). Finally, a meeting (November 16, 4 p.m.) with the Franco-Chilean poet Carles Diaz at the Villa Valmont (Lormont).

Around fifteen international and French authors Jens Christian Grøndahl (Denmark), Eduardo Halfon (Guatemala), Andrew O'Hagan (Scotland), Karolina Ramqvist (Sweden), Rim Battal (Morocco-France), Edmond Baudoin (France), Mathieu Belezi (France), Julie Bouchard (Québec), Vassili Zorki (Russia), Layla Martínez (Spain), Ehsan Norouzi (Iran), Khosraw Mani (Afghanistan-France), Soufiane Khaloua (France) and Vidya Narine (France).