Book Fair 2024: how does François David approach it?

François David knows that the book fair is often marked by the hand of its President: “in Brive, we don’t worry, we need nice people and you’ve seen it, Jérôme Garcin, he’s nice…” Jérôme Garcin, a journalist who succeeds a journalist? “No, no, he’s first and foremost a writer” corrects François David.

A president who had, perhaps, anticipated the results of the literary prizes inviting Goncourt 2024, Kamel Daoud and Renaudot, Gaël Faye for debates

The debates precisely, in 2019, François David, launched the cycle of “present time” meetings. This year it will be aboutANDrule of law, an echo of the news and the comments, a month ago, of the Minister of the Interior? « We didn't do that on purpose. We chose 8 months ago in an international context, then the subject comes to this, so we will treat it with academics and specialists » .

A dictation for Bernard Pivot

Who passed away last May, a nod will be given to Bernard Pivot: “Pivot, we didn't know how to pay tribute to him because all the tributes have been paid. And we think that putting a dictation around Pivot makes sense.”

But Brive and its book fair, for François David, is also and perhaps especially the Brivists: “ I believe that when people are actors, they grow with the manifestation and they make the manifestation.”

“We are meeting creators”

“What’il don't don't rain eand above all that there is the same atmosphere because well, there are the figures, mbut you know, we are meeting creators (…) meetings that only last a moment more which mark an entire life. Phad to be that’ there are men and women who will find a little happiness in meeting the writer and perhaps That will change their lives. Cis that, the fair »