The subject of national identity is a slow-burner in France. It came to light again during the Republicans’ primaries when…
Katja Petrovic
This year a breath of fresh air circulated around the award of literature prizes in France. The good news: the…
Laurent Mauvignier is among France’s leading contemporary writers. Readers who take up one of his novels immediately notice that actually…
All those who may now feel caught in a dreadful predicament – on the one hand, wanting to embrace the…
In 2012, Robert Menasse’s essay Der Europäische Landbote. Die Wut der Bürger und der Friede Europas was published (trans. Craig…
The Prix du livre Inter or Inter Book Prize is the last of the season’s leading literary prizes in France.…
At the end of June the Centre national du livre in Paris published a study of children and young people’s…
If the story with Serbia hadn’t intervened, Peter Handke’s reputation would probably have soared in France from the enfant terrible of…
France’s Nuit debout has been compared with Spain’s Podemos party and the Occupy Wall Street movement in the US. On…
Idle talk about the French “exception culturelle” is really getting on some people’s nerves. For instance, back in 2013 France…
What does Europe mean today? In light of the refugee crisis and financial collapse and the impending risk of failure…
Does European literature exist? If so, in what way is it influenced by writers whose lives and works are rooted…
