Colin Niel, soul hunter

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Colin Niel, French writer, in studio at RFI (September 2020).

© RFI / Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint

By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint

31 min

Author of a tetralogy established in Guyana, awarded with numerous prizes for black literature, Colin Niel, whose novel "Only the beasts" has been adapted for the cinema by Dominik Moll, has just published "Entre Fauves" which takes place between the France and Namibia.

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Cover of Colin Niel's new novel © Le Rouergue

"Martin is a guard at the Pyrenees National Park. He works in particular on monitoring the last bears. But for a year and a half, we have not found the slightest trace of Cannellito, the only plantigrade with a little Pyrenean blood who still frequented these forests, no imprint all winter, no hair on the hundreds of trees observed. Martin is every day more convinced: the hunters will have had the skin of the animal. The history of men, n ' is it not that of the massacre of the wild fauna? So when he comes across a snapshot showing a young woman in front of the remains of a lion, hunting bow in hand, he is determined to find it and deliver it to pasture to public opinion, even if he only knows one pseudonym on social networks: Leg Holas, and nothing that happened a few weeks earlier in Africa.

(Presentation of the editions of the Rouergue).

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