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HOME OF FRANCOPHONE WRITERS (continued) Receptions

The 15,16 and 17 October 2010 on the occasion of the 12th Book Fair Breuil (71), city of residence of the Centre Francophone de Bourgogne, the Centre, in collaboration with the Office City of Culture of the city, has hosted the Francophone writers have, for the most part, met during the show many students, college students or elementary.

Here is a presentation of these figures:

Anne Cuneo, one of the most representative writers of the Suisse Romande, which was good enough to answer our questions.

1) Your saga "Zaida" is a great and beautiful novel. Why this title?

The title was chosen in memory of an aunt of my father, Zaida Cuneo. She was much older than her brother, my grandfather, and in fact could be the great aunt of my father himself. I knew when I was little girl, and a childhood without much affection, warmth, his humor, his way to get to know my level of child and never show the condescension with other adults overwhelmed me (which made me despise them - yes, I was early) were very important to me. I had always promised to give his name to a character, and then it has become when I wanted to write the story of a young girl of the nineteenth century. My great aunt died Zaïda aged 105 or 106 years, and remained lucid and funny to the end. It was just one day off (as Zaida of the novel). Besides that, the fate of the heroine and the woman's real were different, and have in common when they both lived.

2) Why a woman of character and feeling to make us go through the twentieth century?

I did not really choose this character, she chose me. I read for professional reasons a number of romances that were happening in the nineteenth century (for an analysis), and I suddenly asked if I could write a novel so close to us in time. I started, and the rest followed his own. Then I got inspired by diaries, biographies and autobiographies of the time, I documented how I do it for any historical novel. Women who have traveled the century 1860-1960 lived two or three European wars, and their character has been tempered by great misfortunes they have suffered, Zaida could be a woman of character. I discovered during my research, many of these silent heroes that history generally ignores.

3) You are a multifaceted writer (novels, screenplays, radio, TV, etc ...), you write novels, did you choose this type so you can show the various aspects of Switzerland through the under the investigator Mary Machiavelli?

Maria Machiavelli, initially, was the antidote to my work as a journalist. As a news reporter of the TV public service I had to be as objective as possible, and I did not have to give my opinion, I had to provide people something to do theirs. Mary was the channel through which I expressed my feelings about the political and social realities of this country, I show obviously, and on which I can here, to look frankly subjective.

presentation by Anne Cuneo

Anne Cuneo is born in Paris in 1936 to Italian immigrant parents . After the war, she returned with her family in Milan. The death of his father, She spends part of his youth in boarding religious Italy or Switzerland. She ran away to England, learned English and returned to continue his studies in Lausanne, where she obtained a BA in lettres.Touche everything, it will carry multiple jobs: waitress, counselor, receptionist, secretary, translator, teacher, journalist, writer and film director! Then she started writing she would never leave with the success that we know. It covers all topics, and many genres, like detective stories, participate in experiments cinema, radio, theater, passes the staging and the author réalisation.Cette boundless energy remains attentive to the time, feels close to people battered by life and it's not a mystery if the sincerity of his writing draws many readers. A great writer .

Konte Moussa, one of the major writers of contemporary Africa

Three classes of high school Blum ( Le Creusot) met Moussa Konate in the literary café.

For this school year 2010/2011, the school Blum decided to renew the project of literary cafe. Put in place for the third time, his goal is to inspire students to read, to ensure they enjoy opening their books to enrich themselves by reading.

For students involved in the project, 2Bac Pro Elec, 1CAP the Hairdressing and Beauty 2Bac Pro, over 130 books were selected. The principle is that each student, helped by his teachers and two librarians, Séverine Dardalhon and Nathalie Monin, choose a book per quarter and make a small balance at the end of each reading by answering a questionnaire.Mais the interest of literary café, as the name of indicates, moreover, is also set up meetings, organize exchanges around reading. Friday afternoon, in partnership with the Centre Francophone de Bourgogne, the arrival of Moussa Konate was the first highlight of the project. CDI site Lavoisier, students, accompanied by their teachers, Nathalie Cicchetti for 2BP Elec, Catherine Bollery for Hair and CAP Florence Percival 2BP for Aesthetics, spoke with the Malian writer. Two hours during which the author engaged lycéens.D questions where you get your aspiration? How long have you lived in Mali? What is your view on today's Africa? ... Here are some questions posed to the young writer. Questions that gave rise to interesting discussions, for going beyond simple snapshots on Black Africa. That before finishing around the cup of friendship. The SSA, Moussa Konate also will speak Saturday afternoon at the book fair to Breuil. He will lead, from 16.30, a debate on the topic "Africa Black Is Cursed? , Entitled one of his books.

Moussa Konate When talking about the Black African Conference discussion at the Book Fair Breuil (71) Sunday, October 17, 2010

" Black Africa is it cursed , "was the debate that has taken the Malian writer Moussa Konate at the first day book fair.

In a book fair, the fair is the aspect itself with booths set up everywhere, but there is also the aspect rencontres.Ainsi, Saturday afternoon, after Basin Conference by Louis Le Creusot Lagrost, archaeologist and historian known locally, is the author and publisher Mali Moussa Konate, who took part in a debate on Black Africa.

Considered as a reference African writer, he answered questions from Mary Montagne, professor of economics and management The Castle High School in Dijon, and delivered an in-depth, perhaps a bit brief given the importance of the subject on which we could talk for hours but in any case very fair, on the situation of the SSA For him, it appears obvious that the difficulties of the past have left traces, colonization with such perpetuates "the solidarity between the rich" which is still observed today, but he also believes that this vast region Africa has the means to pursue its development. And according to him, it passes by Africans themselves who must break away from a model company still too dominant at present, where the weight, the authority of the community overrides the individual and therefore prevents émancipation.Voilà to summarize the finding which the author arrives Mali in his book "Black Africa Is Cursed ? . To this question he answered so they are not.

Overview Musa Konate
Mali Awards National Book Centre - 1990 and 1999

Of all the writers (contemporary) Mali Moussa Konate seems to be the only one who wants to live with his pen. Indeed, to devote more time to writing, Moussa Konate, then professor of French at school, do not hesitate to abandon the Malian public without claiming any right, after several years of travail.Cette decision was, at the time, considered as pure folly, for no one believed it possible to live as a writer in Mali.

Moussa Konate was first used by an extraordinary will to succeed, which enabled him to overcome many difficulties. It then his love for literature who made the reste.Déjà in 1970, when it passed the bachelor, his first texts were under construction. When he published his first novel, The Price of the Soul in 1981, his mastery of the language of Voltaire no doubt. No idea of what will happen to that text, he continues to write. So that after a decade, no fewer than a dozen titles. Massa Makan Diabaté also when he died in 1988, Moussa Konate is it powered to meet the current literary Mali as the best representative of the literature of his country.

In 1997, Moussa Konate creates Editions Le Figuier, becoming the first writer editor of Mali. Without renouncing his love for French literature, he worked to disseminate knowledge within the rural world through publications in national languages of Mali. He now resides in Limousin, where he created early in 2006 the publishing house "Wintering." He is also co-director of the festival Amazing travelers from Bamako in Mali.

Moussa Konate was awarded the Sony Labou Tansi high school students in 2005 for his play A Night call (Editions Lansman).
His latest book: Is Africa Cursed? is a model of wisdom and reflection.