Djaïli Amadou Amal and "Les impatientes" / Prix Goncourt des Lycéens
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Djaïli Amadou Amal signs in this re-entry "Les impatientes".
© Olivier Thibaud
By: Pascal Paradou
30 mins
Winner of the 2019 Best African Author Prize and the 2019 Orange Book Prize in Africa, Cameroonian writer Djaïli Amadou Amal signed “Les impatientes” during the literary re-entry in September.
Two months later, the book received the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2020.
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The impatient
are the three heroines of his novel, Ramla, Safira and Hindu, who are advised to be patient in the face of the injustices they can suffer, between forced marriage, marital rape ...
Les impatientes
, ed.
Emmanuelle Collas.
And the
column Elsewhere
with Sylvie Dyclo-Pomos, Artistic Director of
the MANTSINA SUR SCÈNE Festival.
This year, due to the health crisis, the
Verso-recto
and
Antigonia
plays
will be distributed on digital media thanks to the support of the
French Institute of Brazzaville.
(Replay of September 14, 2020)
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