In person(s)

Literature: author and academician Dany Laferrière as a child

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Dany Laferrière publishes "The child who watches" © JF PAGA

By: Pascal Paradou

On the occasion of the week of the French language and the Francophonie: from Villers-Cotterêts to Abidjan, French, a plural language!  

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 In "

" the narrator is a little boy who lives in a poor neighborhood of the Haitian capital.

He will befriend a former teacher, dismissed from a school for girls for an unknown reason.

Guest: Dany Laferrière, French author and academician of Haitian origin born in Port-au-Prince, Prix Médicis 2009 for his novel

.

The short story

was published by Grasset on March 9th. 

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