Every year, nearly 900 book lovers come to meet authors, publishers and illustrators at the Bellême festival (Orne). For Serge Bessire, it was necessary “to mark the occasion: that a small association like ours has been able to survive and prosper for twenty years is a miracle”. For the president of the association, a retired bookseller from Versailles, the kingdom of the beautiful word remains his ” drug “. And nothing is too good to indulge in.
The elders sponsor the new generation
While each edition of the festival had its own theme and corresponding writers, the 2024 edition is special. “The theme is our 20th anniversary! develops Serge Bessire. We invited former participants to come back and introduce us to the young authors who represent the future”. Thus, the winner of the 2023 History Prize at the Ajaccio Comics Festival, Miceal Beausang-O’Griafa, submitted the name of the illustrator and designer Nina Hayer. Céline Pibre, graphic designer and illustrator, was spotted by her colleague Pauline Kalioujny.
There are a total of twenty-four people traveling to Bellême to present and sign their works. Some of them will even go, the day before, to meet the Perche students. During the festival, testimonies from elders and children will be exhibited: the former will recount their 20th birthday, the latter will imagine it. A round table, on Sunday November 10, will bring together five authors around the theme “From writing to image: 20 years of evolution”.
Bellême Book FestivalPhilippe-de-Chennevières room, November 9, 2024, from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. and November 10, 2024, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. Free entry.
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