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Matthew Girard
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May 23, 2024 at 7:08 p.m.
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Époque returns for a new editionSaturday May 25 and Sunday May 26, 2024. For two days, the Caen (Calvados) festival and book fair will increase meetings with authorsaround the theme of courage. Here are the ones you shouldn’t miss!
Emmanuel Guibert
Emmanuel Guibert likes to listen to people who have things to say about their existence. Between memories and the search for lucidity, under his line and his snapshots, are embodied tender, sad, funny, but always exciting stories.
Sunday, at 4 p.m., at the Alexis-de-Tocqueville library, the author of the comic strip Alan’s War will recount his journey as a designer and screenwriter, with lots of images and anecdotes.
Pierre Assouline
Guest of honor of the show, Pierre Assouline will have many meetings this weekend. Journalist, biographer and novelisthe regularly contributes to the monthly review The story as columnist and member of scientific committee, at the blog The Republic of Booksas well as various newspapers and magazines.
He will be present in Caen from Friday May 24, at 7 p.m., for an interview about his latest work, The Swimmer, at the Alexis-de-Tocqueville library. The next day, Saturday May 25, at 3:45 p.m., he will discuss “writers and sport” at the National Choreographic Center. Sunday, at 11:30 a.m., at the Conservatory, this time he will speak about “collaborators and resistance fighters”, before a meeting around the theme “resisting in sport”, at 2 p.m., at the CCN.
The Askolovitch family
Evelyn Askolovitch was deported from Holland at the age of four to Bergen-Belsen in Germany. In Remembering togethershe tells the story of Claude her son, a great French journalist, known for his press review in the morning of France Inter and his role as columnist in the show 28 minutes on Arte.
Saturday, at 3:45 p.m., at the Conservatory, they will replay this unique transgenerational exchange on family taboos, the transmission of memory and the courage to bear witness to one’s history. The next day, at 3:45 p.m., at the CCN, they will also participate in a meeting around the theme “the weight of the past” in the company of Nicole Bacharan (The most durable of all) and Cécile Desprairies (The propagandist).
Rachid Benzine
In his novel The Silences of the Fathersthe publisher and Islamologist Rachid Benzine followed in the footsteps of his story, that of a son of a Moroccan immigrant who arrived in France at the time of the Trente Glorieuses.
Saturday, at 11:30 a.m., at the Conservatory, this work will be at the heart of an interview around the theme “the memory of exiles”. And on Sunday, at 5:30 p.m., at the CCN, he will meet the Malagasy author Johary Ravaloson (Stone Court), with whom it will be discussed the quest for justice which leads to breaking silences and denouncing oppression.
Constance Rivière and Belinda Cannone
Constance Rivière (The Life of Shadows) and Caennaise Belinda Cannone (The Vulnerable) have in common that they highlight the voices of the marginalized and misunderstood in society.
Saturday, at 2 p.m., at the CCN, these two women of letters attached to the Caen region will be the protagonists of a meeting around the theme “moving from shadow to light”.
Zadig Hamroune
In his autobiographical story, the winner of the Literary Prize of the City of Caen in 2024 traces his childhood between the 1970s and 1980s. The Barbarian NightZadig Hamroune tells the trajectory of a child from an immigrant background who becomes a studious thug who frequented libraries and was passionate about dance, lyrical art and poetry.
Saturday, at 2 p.m., at the Conservatory, this adopted Norman will return to this atypical personal story. And on Sunday, at 11:30 a.m., still at the Conservatory, he will meet Mahir Guven (Nothing personal), price Goncourt of the first novel in 2018, to “praise freedom”.
Marie-France Hirigoyen
Psychiatrist, psychotherapist, family therapist and specialist in victimologyMarie-France Hirigoyen wrote and published in 1998 an essay on moral harassment which will popularize this notion in France.
His latest work – Separations with children: conflicts, violence, manipulation – deals with the separations of couples with children, and the repercussions they can have on the psyche of the latter. She will present it to the Caen public this Sunday, at 11:30 a.m., during an interview organized at the CCN.
Zeina Abirached
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of Prophetmasterpiece by Khalil Gibran, Lebanese comic artist Zeina Abirached offers to discover this masterful text from a new angle, through a fully illustrated adaptation.
She thus delivers a fascinating graphic novel, whose strength and scope never cease to surprise us. To be discovered this Sunday, at 5:30 p.m., at the Conservatory. In the afternoon, at 2 p.m., in the same place, she will debate the influence and destructive effects of psychological violence with Claudine Desmarteau (In the name of Chris).
Find the complete program of the Époque show on www.caen.fr.
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