From November 18 to 24, 2024, participants of the Festival en Pays Rêvé, a traveling literary and cultural festival, will make presentations in 18 locations in several municipalities in Martinique. For a week, the 16 writers invited to the festival will meet and exchange with the public.
In the introduction to the program of this 3e edition of the Festival in Pays Rêvé, the founder, Viktor Lazlo, a recognized writer and musician, evokes the power of the literature of “change the world.”
More than ever we must say, tell, denounce the horror and injustice so that our saturated brains do not fall asleep. And more than ever we must say the beauty of the world which survives against the tide of its destruction by men.
Viktor Lazlo, founder of the Dream Country Festival
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The guest of honor for the 2024 edition is the Haitian writer, Dany Laferrière. Elected in 2013 to the Académie Française, Dany Laferrière is the author of around forty works.
In Martinique, he will present “A certain art of living”a collection of reflections and poetry around his life, his travels, solitude and love.
Léa Mormin-Chauvacjournalist and member of the feminist magazine, La Déferlante, presents her new book entitled, The Narda Sistersl.
Published in 2024, the book explains why the Nardal sisters were erased from activist history in favor of Aimé Cesaire and Leopold Sédar Senghor.
It retraces their journey from Fort-de-France to Paris via England and the United States where Paulette Nardal was a member of the United Nations.
Léa Mormin-Chauvac is co-author of the documentary “The Nardal sisters, the forgotten ones of negritude”.
Zelda Lockhartassociate professor of creative writing and African-American literature at the University of North Carolina Central, will present her first novel translated into French.
Hear my voicepublished in 2024 is “a family fresco written at the height of women going through pain and hope in American history of the 20th century.”
Mokhtar Amoudiborn to Algerian parents, became a writer after studying business law.
He presents his first book, “Ideal Conditions”published in 2023 and awarded the Goncourt prize for prisoners, awarded by incarcerated people.
“Ideal Conditions”inspired by the author’s life, talks about the childhood of Skander, a young man in search of escape from his environment in the Parisian suburbs of the 2000s.
Alain Mabanckou, Fabienne Kanor, Suzanne Dracius, Tania de Montaigne, Emilie Frèche, Hemly Boum, Roland Brival, et Jean-François Carenco are among the invited authors.
School meetings and presentations at the University of the West Indies Campus and at the Ducos penitentiary center are on the program.
Literary presentations are systematically accompanied by music.
This year, the film “Consent” by director Vanessa Filho, will be screening at Tropiques Atrium in Fort-de-France.
The film, based on the book of the same name, examines the acts of pedophilia and sexual assault suffered by the author, Vanessa Springora.
Open this link to find the detailed program for the 2024 edition of the Festival en Pays Rêvé.
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