The 42nd Brive Book Fair will take place from November 8 to 10. Less than a week before its inauguration, the general commissioner of the Fair François David spoke to France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine, partner of this unmissable literary event.
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The Book Fair is literary of course, but it overlaps with current themes. Is this particularly true this year?
The Brive Fair, since its origins, has been a general Fair which offers a wide spectrum of authors and encounters which form a rainbow of multiple colors.
In 2018, the “human sciences” color was created and proposed the “Present time” cycle centered on current issues. The public responded and the cycle was established in the programming, becoming a highlight of the event.
Le 1 Hebdo wanted to become a partner in the project. This year, from December, we have chosen to deal with “the rule of law”, a hot topic in so many countries around the world and which in recent weeks has become a very current subject in our country. The subject will be treated by eminent specialists, academics, historians (Johann Chapoutot and Arnaud Teyssier), jurists (Sébastien Pimont and Vincent Foray, professors at Sciences Po Paris) and the former president of the Constitutional Council Jean-Louis Debré.
This affirmed and assumed desire to diversify has seen the Fair open up to other places and other readers. After the installation of poetry within the framework of the Ouvroir a few hundred meters from the original site, real joint work with the Brive hospital resulted in a literary meeting with Mélissa Da Costa in the premises of the hospital center, a real place to read.
Finally, for the first time, a meeting will take place in the large reception room of the new Brivist CA stand. It will be a question of thinking about sport as a means of overcoming the trials of life: Matthieu Lartot, the voice of rugby on France 2 and the Brive player Mathieu Bosredon, three-time Olympic champion will be the guests.
How does the Brive Book Fair intend to bring young Brive residents in its wake?
Youth is one of my essential concerns.
Young people who are too quickly told that they do not read are offered meetings within their establishment. More than 100 moments of dialogue will take place during the day on Friday, as many opportunities to bring together the world of school and that of literature and to make teachers and students actors of this edition.
Other meetings will be held on Friday and Saturday on the Fair sites where the main youth guest, the illustrator and author Rebecca Dautremer, will meet young readers.
As was the case for the first time last year, more than 500 young schoolchildren will stroll the streets of the city on Friday afternoon, reciting poems worked on in class thanks to the fine work of their teachers. They too will be actors in their Book Fair.
Finally with a new dedicated place – Espace Professor Jean-Paul Escande -, comics whose big guest is Emmanuel Lepage will continue to occupy an increasingly important place to satisfy enthusiasts, young and old, as much as it is true that limiting its influence on a young audience is reductive to say the least.
And general literature?
It is at the heart, perhaps even the heart of the Brive Book Fair.
It continues to host the grand prix, almost all of which will be in Brive. For more than thirty years, the City of Brive has been awarding the prestigious French Language Prize, worth 10,000 euros, to reward a personality whose “work has contributed significantly to illustrating the quality and beauty of the French language” .
Gathered for the first time in the Parisian premises of the Brive company Sothys, a prestigious jury made up of French and Goncourt academicians and big names in literature, awarded the prize which will be given to Abdellah Taïa as part of the 42nd edition.
General literature, children's literature or comics, from the Georges Brassens hall to the Espace des Trois Provinces, the meeting is once again a highlight of the fall.
France 3 Limousin will bring you the Fair in all its information editions HERE 12/13 and HERE 19/20but also from Monday November 4 on France 3 country of Corrèze.
Sunday in Politicspresented by Annaïck Demars and Martial Codet-Boisse, will be entirely devoted to the Fair on November 9 at 11.10. They will receive Douglas Kennedy and Maryse Burgot (the result of the US elections will be discussed), Victor Castanet for his latest book Ogres, Jean-Louis Debré and Roselyne Bachelot then Olivier Norek.
NoA Culture: 42nd Brive Book Fairwill be presented by Vanessa Finot and Valérie Delos who will receive among others: François Hollande, Matthias Vincenot, Franck Bouysse, Franck Thilliez, Patrick Sébastien, Sonia Fournet-Pérot, Jérôme Garcin…
France 3 Limousin and France Bleu Limousin are joining forces for a one-hour program which will be broadcast on Saturday 8 at 9:10 p.m. on NoA and Sunday 10 at 1:00 p.m. on France Bleu Limousin.
From Friday November 8 to Sunday November 10, a France 3 Limousin stand – France Bleu Limousin will welcome readers.
