The Toulouse Marathon des mots literary festival celebrates its 20th anniversarye editing. Started on Tuesday June 25, and until Sunday June 30, it hosts 130 meetings organized and distributed among 20 municipalities of the metropolis of the pink city.
Meetings, shows, readings, visitors will still be able to meet Jean-Baptiste Andreawinner of the 2023 Goncourt for Watch over her (The Iconoclast), Laure Murat, Edward Louis or Laurent Binet. Jean-Paul Duboisregional stage and 2019 Goncourt prize for Not all people live in the world in the same way. (L’Olivier), was in contact with the public at the Sorano theater on the evening of Wednesday, June 26. The day before, the winner of the 2005 Renaudot Prize Nina Bouraoui told on the same stages and in music, his last title Nobleman (JC Lattès).
Multiple authors intervene within the framework of very specific themes such as foreign literature with Spanish Manuel Vilas meeting at the Ombres Blanches bookstore for his work Irene (basement edition). The Marathon of Words focuses in particular on Swiss literature with several guest authors such asElisa Shua Dusapin, Thomas Flahaut or Joseph Incardonaon site, ready to meet their readers.
The show and the stage fuel literature in Toulouse, the actor Denis Lavant animates the pages thanks to its talents, while the Swiss troupe Bern is everywhere set writings to music at the José Cabanis media library.
The Marathon of Words is only halfway over, visitors will still be able to enjoy a vast programme all weekend.
