Radio producer Philippe Collin has had a huge cultural impact in France on two counts: firstly as the creator of the hit podcast Facing History, which has had forty million downloa
I am wary of epistolary novels based around social-media interactions, as in my view their form makes momentum and character depth hard to realise. Despentes, however, proves it ca
Ian Long is a screenwriter and graphic artist. He is currently completing a script for a supernatural feature film set in rural Italy. Meanwhile, another feature called STARGAZER t
Many of the most acclaimed novels to come out of Spain in recent years are what you might call ‘aftermath fiction’, concerned with the legacies of the Civil War and/or the Seco
The panel of judges is chaired by the prize-winning French-Moroccan novelist, Leïla Slimani. The panel also includes Uilleam Blacker, one of Britain’s leading literary transla
My own stay at the Salpêtrière hospital in Paris, on the Charcot ward for neurological disease, was thankfully rather less eventful than the fictional events set in that same loc
The sad occasion of Marcel Péricourt’s funeral turns profoundly tragic when his grandson falls from a second-floor window. The child’s injuries are life-changing, and his moth
Alice Zeniter’s multi-generational family saga is a compelling tale of a family caught in the fallout from France’s ill-fated colonial past. Written in sparkling French prose,
Frank Wynne is a star of French literature – in translation. One of the UK’s top translators into English, he has won several awards and publicly champions literary translation
A road forks – one brother becomes a libertine, the other a micro-biologist traveller. Houellebecq explodes our complacency and shapes the mitochondria of the contemporar
