Angoulême: celebrating French comic books
Celebrating this year’s edition of the Angoulême International Comics Festival, here is a selection of French comic books soon-to-be...
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Mode Muntu, the Modest Man
A conversation between author Michael De Plaen and art critic Patrick Tankama will take place on Monday 28th January at the October...
Preparing for the Night of Ideas: our reading list!
The Night of Ideas is one of the highlights of the year at the Institut Français. The 2019 edition of the Night of Ideas will take place...
Hear Our Defeats, Laurent Gaudé
"Hear Our Defeats is a grand poem, a crazy and wise book. Crazy because the reader gets carried away by all the voices and some unknown...
FILM REVIEWS AND DRAWINGS from Reedham Park School - Les malheurs de Sophie
What a delight it was to meet the pupils from Reedham Park School! Below you can browse through their thoughts and impressions of 'Les...
Interregional Prize for Young Writers 2019: writing contest for young people aged 15 to 20
Interregional Prize for Young Writers 2019 (PIJA) is a writing contest in French language, open for young people aged 15 to 20. Every...
The Scott Moncrieff Prize
The Society of Authors will be hosting its annual awards celebration for the Translation Prizes at the British Library’s Knowledge Centre...
Job opportunity: the European Union is recruiting translators
The European Union has recently opened a process to recruit translators and proofreaders on fixed-term contracts to work within the EU...
The Survival of the Jews in France: 1940-44, Jacques Semelin
'May well prove to be a landmark in the historiography of the subject … well-researched and cogently argued’ — Times Literary Supplement...
Book Launch: Seloua Luste Boulbina - Les Miroirs vagabonds ou la décolonisation des savoirs
French-Algerian philosopher Seloua Luste Boulbina will be hosting the book launch of her latest work this coming Saturday (19/01) at the...
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