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The French Institute in India, in collaboration with Apeejay Trust, announces Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee's book "Divan Staliner", a translation of Jean-Daniel Baltassat's Stalin's Couch, the winner of 7th Romain Rolland Book Prize. This ...

Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee, translator of the Bengali version of "Stalin's Couch", won the 7th Romain Rolland Book Prize, awarded to the best translation of a French book into an Indian language. This is the second win for Bengali after Trinanjan Chakraborty's win in 2022. Chatterjee is delighted and expects more French books to be translated into Bengali. The French original by Jean-Daniel Baltassat was also adapted into a movie. The prize aims to promote translating French lit...

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Dive into the Best French Books, Where Each Page Holds the Key to Literary Liberation, Unleashing Stories of Rebellion, Romance, and the Enduring French Spirit.

Toni Aquilina's interpretation of Camus' 'L’Étranger'

After a stroke, the author of the new novel 'Las Madras' taught herself to read again by remembering how she learned to read in English.

The Nation Magazine

"Zabor", the new novel by Algerian star author Kamel Daoud, tells the story of the outsider Ismael, who discovers poetry as a means of survival. Stefan Weidner sees parallels in the novel with the situation in Algeria following the ousting of Bouteflika

"Zabor", the new novel by Algerian star author Kamel Daoud, tells the story of the outsider Ismael, who discovers poetry as a means of survival. Stefan Weidner sees parallels in the novel with the situation in Algeria following the ousting of Bouteflika

Writers and Missionaries (Verso, May 2023), Adam Shatz’s new collection of essays, chronicles a diverse group of writers frustrated by the narrow prisms of ideology and identity. Shatz examines novelists and playwrights who have tested the lines of literature and advocacy, artists and critics who have grown frustrated by moral simplification and political binary.