Meetings, signings, discoveries whether for releases, the great classics or the vast universe of comics. The book fair has acquired its reputation over the years. A place that has become a must for the whole family.
The book and comic book fair, organized by the La Villes aux Livres association in partnership with the city of Creil, offers the possibility, for three days, to meet around a hundred novelists, screenwriters, illustrators within the space cultural La Faïencerie.
With the theme “Elsewhere”, the objective is to allow visitors to wander through time and territories. “The various meetings and round tables will allow us to explore the unknown, to travel through Haiti in music, to travel through history and its testimonies, or even to discover parallel and imaginary worlds,” promise the organizers.
Louis-Philippe Dalembert as guest of honor
Louis-Philippe Dalembert, awarded the 2024 Goncourt Poetry Prize on May 14 for his entire work, is also a novelist, short story writer and literary critic journalist. A prolific author, he draws on his numerous travels (North and South America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East and of course Europe) to weave a dialogue between his native Haiti and other cultures where women occupy a special place. . Born in Port-au-Prince, he graduated from the École Normale Supérieure of Port-au-Prince. He completed his university studies in Paris, obtained his journalism diploma at the École supérieure de journalism and then exercised this profession. He is the author of more than thirty works (novels, collections of poetry and short stories). Numerous literary prizes have been awarded to him. Since 2017, her novels have been published by Sabine Wespieser. Some awards: Mur Méditerranée (2019) was winner of the French Language Prize and finalist of the Goncourt Prize for high school students. Milwaukee Blues (2022) was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize, Goncourt Choice of Switzerland and Spain and the Writers of the South Readers' Prize. A Roman History, his latest novel, will be published in 2023.
Note an interview planned in public on Saturday around 3 p.m. Louis-Philippe Dalembert will also be at the show on Sunday.
Tradition obliges, throughout these three days, but more particularly Saturday and Sunday, there will be debates, round tables and presentations by the authors. Take the time to listen, to browse, to discuss. These are ultimately the key words of these three literary days.
Free entry: a tradition
To get to the living room. Nothing could be easier. Publishing is centralized at the Faïencerie cultural space, Allée Nelson in Creil. Doors open on Friday, November 15 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and from 1:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.; Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 November from 9:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
