Yasmina Khadra, Algerian writer, is the sponsor of this edition of Lire en pocket, from October 11 to 13 in Gradignan. The author of “The Swallows of Kabul”, “The Sirens of Bagdad”, “The Attack”, “What the Day Owes to the Night”… has been translated into around fifty languages.
To open the festival, a dark dive into the Brooklyn district of New York and its magnificent losers with William Boyle (Friday at 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.) in the original version. A prize ceremony later (including the “Sud-Ouest”/Lire en Poche Polar Prize on Friday evening), we note on Saturday October 12, major interviews: with Atiq Rahimi (at 10:30 a.m.), Prix Goncourt in 2008 for “Syngué Sabour”, and Yasmina Khadra for her “Cœur-d’amende” released at the start of the September literary season (at 11:30 a.m.).
Also expected in the general literature department: Jonathan Coe, David Diop (Goncourt des lycéens in 2018 for “Brother of Soul”), Brigitte Giraud (Goncourt 2022 for “Vivre vite”), Virginie Grimaldi, Andreï Kourkov, Hervé Le Tellier, Katherine Pancol, Emma Green, Romain Puertolas, Beata Umubyeyi Mayor…
Thriller and eclecticism
On the thriller and noir novel side, fans will no longer know where to turn between Craig Johnson and his sheriff Walt Longmire, a Vietnam veteran, capable of slowing down time thanks to his Cheyenne knowledge; Franck Thilliez, one of the masters of the French thriller; the Girondist Hervé Le Corre, who wrote “Who will live after us”, a masterful postapocalyptic novel; or Doa and her enigma texts straight out of the worst depths.
Teenagers and cadets are not left out: murder party, meetings around manga with Sourya, comic book reading, fantasy, or romance. In the cadet section, a show “P’tit bonhomme et société”, readings, a workshop with Bernard Friot or the creation of a comic strip with Fabien Öckto Lambert (“Migali” and “Chocochat et moi”).
Read in pocket from October 11 to 13 in Gradignan. [email protected] or 05 56 84 97 31. www.lireenpoche.fr
