The Brive Book Fair will take place on November 8, 9 and 10. Four hundred authors are expected for the event: novelists, athletes, politicians, actresses… Overview of this forty-second edition chaired by Jérôme Garcin.
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Already president of Lire à Limoges in 2022, the prolific Douglas Kennedy will return to Limousin lands from November 8 to 10 for Elsewhere, at homein which the writer continues his exploration of a disunited America.
At his side, we will find many regulars of the Fair: Amélie Nothomb, Bernard Werber, Katherine Pancol…
The future winners of the fall literary prizes should also make the trip. The Goncourt Prize will be awarded on November 4, just a few days before the start of the show. Among the contenders, Gail Faye, Maylis de Kerangal or even Kamel Daoud. All are scheduled in Brive.
Regional literature is not forgotten: Christian Signol or even Régine Rossi-Lagorce will also have their works signed.
Like every year, celebrities will jostle, starting with athletes: the former captain of the French handball team Nikola Karabatic will be in Brive to present Our love of handballwhich will be published on October 23, written jointly with his brother Luka.
The 1998 world champion Bixente Lizarazu will make its first appearance in Brive with a publication with an evocative title: Live sports – how to stay fit.
The model and television presenter Adriana Karembeu will come and present Librean autobiographical story in which she reveals in particular the violence suffered by her father during her childhood in Slovakia.
As is often the case, the news arrives in the aisles of the show: the actress Isild Le Bescowho spoke out against director Benoît Jacquot following Judith Godrèche, initiating a movement to free speech on an unprecedented scale in French cinema, will also be present for Tell the truthan autobiography in which she looks at length at her relationship with the filmmaker, which began when she was only sixteen and he was sixty-two.
There will also be many politicians strolling through the Brassens Hall: Customary to the event, François Hollande will have his latest work signed The challenge of governing, published at the start of the school year. Roselyne Bachelot and the Minister of the Armed Forces, Sebastien Lecornufor a work cheerfully titled Towards war…
Finally, journalism is not left out: the great reporters Maryse Burgot et Dorothée Olliéric will be present, just like the former star presenter of Canal+ Michel Denisot or the investigative journalist Victor Castanetwhich has just published an incriminating investigation into the nursery sector entitled The Ogres.
Last year, the event sold 70,000 pounds for a turnover of around a million euros. A record.
