Ocean Press: Saint-Nazaire, a cosmopolitan city, embodies your view of the world, whether in your non-fiction novels or through the Meet (Houses of Foreign Writers and Translators) that you direct.
Patrick Deville : “Saint-Nazaire has an ancient cosmopolitan tradition that is even more marked today around the workforce of Chantiers de l’Atlantique and Airbus. At the market, twenty languages are spoken. Finally, Meet by definition is open to the world. Three Nobel Prizes for literature passed through our country before being consecrated: the Polish Olga Tokarczuk, but also the two Chinese, Mo Yan and Gao Xingjian. When I arrive in China, the writers are convinced that I have the 06 of each Nobel juror! »
How did it all start?
“There are coincidences. In 1993, I moved to Havana to observe the effects of the fall of the Soviet bloc. After having published a few novels, at that time I was looking for another literary form and I began to direct my research towards William Walker who is at the center of Pura…
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