ON THE FRINGE OF THE FESTIVAL
MONDAY SEPTEMBER 29th, 2008 at 7pm

Reading of texts by Heinrich Böll

during the opening of the exhibition dedicated to his work as a painter at the Goethe Institute, Paris 16th.

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ON THE FRINGE OF THE FESTIVAL
FROM OCTOBER 10th TO JANUARY 11th, 2009

Echappées Nordiques

Evenings dedicated to Danish, Finish, Norvegian and Swedish Literatures
at the Palais des Beaux Arts of Lille

For more informations : www.pba-lille.fr

ON THE FRINGE OF THE FESTIVAL
OCTOBER 10th, 2008

Lire en Fête at the Swedish Cultural Center of Paris

Reading of Selma Lagerlöf's novel "Körkarlen" by Anny Romand in French and Olof Orloff in Swedish. Presented by Jasper Svenbro, member of the Nobel Academy.

For more informations : www.ccs.si.se

ON THE FRINGE OF THE FESTIVAL
DECEMBRE 3rd, 2008

Reading of texts for children of several authors, and among them Selma Lagerlöf

at the Palais des Beaux Arts of Lille

For more informations : www.pba-lille.fr

 

 

 

 

 

 

« We have a treasure-house of literature, going back to the Egyptians, the Greeks, the Romans. It is all there, this wealth of literature, to be discovered again and again by whoever is lucky enough to come upon it. A treasure. Suppose it did not exist. How impoverished, how empty we would be. The storyteller is deep inside every one of us. The story-maker is always with us. Let us suppose our world is ravaged by war, by the horrors that we all of us easily imagine. Let us suppose floods wash through our cities, the seas rise. But the storyteller will be there, for it is our imaginations which shape us, keep us, create us -for good and for ill. It is our stories that will recreate us, when we are torn, hurt, even destroyed.»
 Doris Lessing's speech when she received the Nobel Prize for Literature 2007.

 

So let us all hunt for this treasure, as Doris Lessing says, to discover or rediscover hidden treasures with this Third Edition of "A Season of Nobel".

Each evening, an author who received the Nobel Prize wil be honoured:

TUESDAY OCTOBER 28TH 2008 AT 8.30pm

Romain ROLLAND

(France 1866-1944)

Nobel Prize : 1915

Miscellaneous Correspondances - Albin Michel

Presented by

Reading by Pierre Santini

Biography

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29TH 2008 AT 8.30pm

 

 

Luigi PIRANDELLO

(Italy 1867-1936)

Nobel Prize : 1934

Un, personne, cent mille - Gallimard

Presented by

Reading by

Biography

THURSDAY OCTOBER 30TH 2008 AT 8.30pm

The new Nobel Prize for Literature

Nobel Prize : 2008

Reading by Anny Romand

Biography

FRIDAY OCTOBER 31ST 2008 AT 8.30pm

Saul BELLOW

(USA 1915-1005)

Nobel Prize : 1976

Ravelstein - Gallimard

Presented by

Reading by

Biography

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 1ST 2008 AT 8.30pm

Selma LAGERLÖF

(Sweden 1858 - 1940)

Nobel Prize : 1909

Le Cocher - Actes Sud

Presented by Régis Boyer,Emeritus Professor in Scandinavian Literatures, Languages and Civilisations.

Reading by Bernadette Lafont

Followed by the film La Charrette Fantôme by Julien Duvivier with Pierre Fresnay, 1939

Biography

SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2ND 2008 AT 5pm

Heinrich BÖLL

(Germany 1917-1985)

Nobel Prize : 1972

Portrait de groupe avec dame - Seuil

Presented by

Reading by

Followed by the screening of its adaptation as a film directed by Aleksander Petrovic with Romy Schneider
(Cannes Film Festival 1977)

Biography

MONDAY NOVEMBER 3RD 2008 AT 8.30pm

GAO XINJIANG

In presence of Gao Xinjiang

(China 1940)

Nobel Prize : 2000

Le quêteur de la mort - Seuil

Presented by

Reading by

Biography