French fashion designer Agnès b, 81, has been a style icon for decades. Reported to be one of the richest self-made women in France , with 242 stores worldwide (of which 134 are in Japan).
One year after he was attacked at a literary festival, Salman Rushdie is publishing his new novel Victory City in French, translated by Gérard Meudal – who works under his real name, in spite of the fatwa against the author.
With his substantial experience as a translator and the agility gained, in addition to his early start navigating several languages and literatures, Joris in his poetic voice seems ever protean, eluding a fixed style. Rather, the circumstances of the poems elicit their own language and processes according to the particular dialogues that animate them.
At the end of the twentieth century, the long predicted convergence of the media, computing and telecommunications into hypermedia is finally happening.[2] Once again, capitalism’s relentless drive…