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Écoutez la journaliste Lauren Bastide en conversation avec Raphaëlle Red, autrice d’un premier roman, « Adikou », publié aux éditions Grasset en 2024 et dans lequel l’héroïne, en quête identitaire, part à la recherche de ses origines au Togo. Au cours de cet échange, Raphaëlle Red revient sur les auteurs qui l’inspirent, tels que James Baldwin, Audre Lorde et Léonora Miano, et affirme son goût pour le rap, qui a influencé le rythme singulier de son texte. Ensemble, elles évoquent également sa manière d’inscrire une narration féminine dans la tradition littéraire du récit de voyage et remarquent l’influence des blogs et d’internet sur le rapport des jeunes écrivains à l’écriture.

En marge des Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon, le podcast « les Rencontres » met en lumière l’acte de naissance d’une écrivaine dans une série imaginée par CHANEL et Charlotte Casiraghi, ambassadrice et porte-parole de la Maison.

(00:00) Introduction

(00:54) Présentation de Raphaëlle Red et de son roman « Adikou » par Lauren Bastide

(02:29) À propos de la rencontre de l’autrice avec l’écriture

(03:58) L’influence des blogs et d’internet sur le rapport à l’écriture des jeunes écrivains

(04:42) À propos du choix de Raphaëlle Red d’écrire en français

(06:18) L’influence des sciences sociales sur son approche de la littérature

(07:58) À propos de son goût pour le rap

(09:51) À propos de ses rencontres inspirantes avec des auteurs et autrices

(13:09) Le processus de publication du roman

(15:50) Lecture d’un extrait de « Adikou » par Raphaëlle Red

(18:27) À propos du processus d’écriture du roman

(23:20) À propos des choix narratifs du roman

(26:19) À propos de l’héritage littéraire du roman de voyage

(28:00) L’importance de la sensorialité dans le roman

(30:03) À propos du titre du roman

(31:08) À propos de la réception du livre

(36:42) Le questionnaire de fin du podcast « les Rencontres »

Adikou © Raphaëlle Red et les Editions Grasset, 2024

© les Editions Grasset & Fasquelle 

© La Maison des artistes de Baguida

Post-it est une marque déposée de 3M Company

Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Kaliane Bradley, writer of “The Ministry of Time”, her first novel published by Sceptre in 2024. Through this conversation with Erica Wagner, Kaliane Bradley talks about her passion for writing since childhood, the literary and historical sources that inspired her for this novel, and the power of fiction. Together, they also discuss how her experience as an editor has influenced her work as a writer, and highlight the collaborative aspect of creating a book. 

As part of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon], the podcast "les Rencontres" highlights the birth of a writer in a series imagined by CHANEL and House ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi.

(00:00) Introduction

(00:57) Presentation of Kaliane Bradley by Erica Wagner

(04:28) On the author’s vocation as a writer

(06:40) The sources of inspiration for “The Ministry of Time”

(12:24) On the publication process

(15:51) Reading an extract of “The Ministry of Time” by Kaliane Bradley

(17:26) On her narrative choices

(23:43) On her writing process

(25:50) On the publishing profession

(27:39) On the reception of the book

(32:37) On the powers of fiction

(35:14) The ending questionnaire of “les Rencontres”

Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time © Hodder & Stoughton, 2024

Normal People © Sally Rooney, 2018 Publisher by Faber and Faber Ltd

Conversations with Friends © Sally Rooney, 2017 Publisher by Faber and Faber Ltd

Emma Donoghue, The Wonder © Little, Brown & Company, 2016

Copyright © 2016 by Emma Donoghue Ltd

Copyright © Alice Birch

Copyright © Sebastián Lelio

Emma Donoghue, The Wonder © Picador, 2016

The Wonder by Emma Donoghue © 2016. Published in Canada by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd

Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood © Granta Books, 2023

© Eleanor Catton 2023

Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton. Copyright © 2023 by Eleanor Catton. Used by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux. All rights Reserved

© Penguin Classics

© Penguin Press

© Catapult Books

© Granta Books

© The Willowherb Review

© Extra Teeth

© Electric Literature

Kaliane Bradley, The Wishing Dance © Hodder & Stoughton, 2021

Compilation copyright - Pippa Marland & Anita Roy, Gifts of Gravity and Light © Hodder & Stoughton, 2021

© Hodder and Stoughton

© Harper Bazaar

© Royal Society of Literature

Dan Simmons, The Terror © Little, Brown and Company, 2007

Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveller’s Wife, Vintage Classic, 2022

Emily St. John Mandel, The Sea of Tranquility, Penguin Books, 2022

Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five, Penguin Books, 1999

© Sceptre Books

Wikipedia trademark used with permission from the Wikimedia Foundation

Écoutez la journaliste Lauren Bastide en conversation avec Joséphine Tassy, autrice d’un premier roman, « L’Indésir », publié par L’Iconoclaste en 2023, dans lequel elle explore les thèmes du deuil et de la quête identitaire au travers du personnage de Nouria. Au fil de la conversation, Lauren Bastide et Joséphine Tassy évoquent le style de l’autrice, mêlant prose et poésie, et l’importance du travail sur la forme. Elles reviennent également sur sa newsletter, « Lézarde », une initiative originale destinée à maintenir un lien avec ses lecteurs.

En marge des Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon, le podcast « les Rencontres » met en lumière l’acte de naissance d’une écrivaine dans une série imaginée par CHANEL et Charlotte Casiraghi, ambassadrice et porte-parole de la Maison.

(00:00) Introduction

(00:53) Présentation de Joséphine Tassy et de « L’Indésir » par Lauren Bastide

(02:24) À propos de sa vocation d’écrivaine

(03:45) À propos de son style d’écriture : entre prose et poésie

(05:42) À propos de son métier de chercheuse en économie du développement

(07:42) Les auteurs et autrices qui l’ont inspirée 

(09:55) À propos du processus de publication de son roman

(11:31) Lecture d’un extrait de « L’Indésir » par Joséphine Tassy

(14:19) À propos du processus d’écriture de son roman

(20:43) À propos du titre du roman

(22:30) À propos de ses personnages principaux, et de leurs singularités

(26:50) À propos de la réception du roman

(28:13) À propos de sa newsletter, « Lézarde » 

(29:53) Le questionnaire de fin du podcast « Les Rencontres »

Joséphine Tassy, L'Indésir, © L'Iconoclaste, 2023.

© L'Iconoclaste.

Anna Mouglalis spoke with Charles Gillibert, French producer accustomed to Cannes since he recently presented the films Sils Maria in 2014 and Personal Shopper in 2016 both by Olivier Assayas, and Mustang directed by Deniz Gamze Ergüven, a film first noticed in 2015 during la quinzaine des réalisateurs. This year, he comes with Yann Gonzalez’s film, A knife in the heart, starring Vanessa Paradis, and the Long Day's Journey into Night by Bi Gan, selected for Un Certain Regard.

Anna Mouglalis a échangé avec Charles Gillibert, producteur français habitué de Cannes puisqu’il y a récemment présenté les films Sils Maria en 2014 et Personal Shopper en 2016 réalisés par Olivier Assayas et Mustang de Deniz Gamze Ergüven remarqué lors de la Quinzaine des réalisateurs 2015. Cette année, il accompagne le film de Yann Gonzalez, Un couteau dans le coeur, avec Vanessa Paradis notamment, ainsi que Long Day’s Journey into Night du réalisateur Bi Gan, sélectionné pour Un Certain Regard.

Primary vocation of the House, CHANEL Haute Couture allows all dreams and creative audacities. In this second episode, recorded in the apartment of Gabrielle Chanel at the 31, rue Cambon ahead of the Spring-Summer 2024 Haute Couture show, actress and House ambassador Margaret Qualley shares her personal experience of CHANEL Haute Couture, the emotions it encloses, and opens up about her artistic career and relationship to time.

A conversation led by Géraldine Sarratia.

Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Huma Qureshi, writer of “Playing Games”, her first novel published by Sceptre in 2023. In her novel, the author draws a nuanced portrait of sisterhood, family, love and loss through the arc of two main characters, Hana and Mira. Throughout the conversation, Erica Wagner and Huma Qureshi evoke Alice Munro, Ann Patchett or even Ann Taylor, feminine writers who deeply inspired her to write about quiet, but significant, everyday moments. They also discuss how the author returns to the subject of real life informing fiction in “Playing Games”, a recurrent theme in her writing.

As part of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon], the podcast "les Rencontres" highlights the birth of a writer in a series imagined by CHANEL and House ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi.

(00:00) Introduction

(00:54) Presentation of Huma Qureshi by Erica Wagner

(04:34) On the author’s vocation as a writer

(06:50) The female writers that inspire her

(08:10) Writing about quiet, but significant, everyday moments

(09:47) On the writing and publication process

(12:10) Reading an extract of “Playing Games” by Huma Qureshi

(14:05) On the author’s approach to writing and her creative process

(16:27) : On her main characters

(18:37) The writer’s block

(20:33) Her first reader

(22:15) On real life informing fiction and the book’s reception

(27:56) The ending questionnaire of “les Rencontres”

Huma Qureshi, Playing Games, © Sceptre, 2023.

© Huma Qureshi, Playing Games, 2023. 

Cover: © Charlotte Ager. 

“Playing Games by Huma Qureshi review – a poignant sisterhood story" par Sana Goyal, © Guardian News & Media Ltd, 2024.

© The University of Warwick.

© Sciences PO.

Huma Qureshi, In Spite of Oceans: Migrant Voices, © The History Press, 2014.

© Harper’s Bazaar.

Huma Qureshi, The Jam Maker, © Harper's Bazaar, 2020.

Huma Qureshi, How We Met: A Memoir of Love and Other Misadventures, © Elliott & Thompson, 2021.

Huma Qureshi, Things We Do Not Tell the People We Love, © Sceptre, 2021.

© Books Are My Bag Indie Book Awards.

© The Jhalak Prize.

© The Edge Hill Prize, Edge Hill University

"In conversation with Huma Qureshi", © Sonder & Tell, 2021.

© The Financial Times.

Listen to author and critic Erica Wagner in conversation with Selby Wynn Schwartz, writer of “After Sappho”, her first novel published by Galley Beggar Press in 2022. Together, they talk about her insatiable appetite for literature as a child and the way it led her to becoming a writer. They also evoke Lina Poletti, Sarah Bernhardt, Virginia Woolf or even Nathalie Barney, the women artists who inspired “After Sappho”, the book in which Selby Wynn Schwartz pays tribute to them.

As part of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon], the podcast "les Rencontres" highlights the birth of a writer in a series imagined by CHANEL and House ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi.

Selby Wynn Schwartz, After Sappho, © Selby Wynn Schwartz 2002, first published by Galley Beggar Press, 2022.

Quote from the interview "The Galley Beggar Q&A: Selby Wynn Schwartz", © Galley Beggar Press, 2022.

Quote from the article "After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz review – in praise of visionary women" written by Lara Feigel, © Guardian News & Media Ltd 2023.

© Booker Prize Foundation.

© The Orwell Prize for Political Fiction 2023.

© University of Edinburgh.

Selby Wynn Schwartz, The Bodies of Others: Drag Dances and their Afterlives, © Selby Wynn Schwartz University of Michigan Press, 2019.

© Lambda Literary. 

© American Society for Theatre Research.

Selby Wynn Schwartz, A Life in Chameleons, © Selby Wynn Schwartz, 2023. 

© Reflex Press. 

© University of California, Berkeley. 

© Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo. 

The Great Art Of Light And Shadow: Archaeology of the Cinema by Laurent Mannoni, translated by Richard Crangle. Translation © University of Exeter Press, 2000. 

Anne Carson, Short Talks, © Brick Books, 2015.

Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, Translated by Anne Carson, © Virago, 2003.

© Galley Beggar Press.

Sappho, If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho, Translated by Anne Carson, © Virago, 2003.

Assia Djebar, Women of Algiers in their apartments, © Caraf Books, 1999.

Assia Djebar, Femmes d’Alger dans leur appartement © Éditions des femmes, 1980.

Igiaba Scego, The Color Line, Translated by John Cullen and Gregory Conti, first published in the English language by Other Press in 2022.

Igiaba Scego, La linea del colore, first published in Italy in 2020 by Bompiani, © Igiaba Scego, 2020.

Dionne Brand, The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos. © 2018 Dionne Brand. All rights reserved.

Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Riotous Black Girls, Troublesome Women, and Queer Radicals, © WW Norton & Company, 2019.

T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Bricktop's Paris: African American Women in Paris between the Two World Wars, © SUNY Press, 2015.

Alessandra Cenni, Gli Occhi Eroici : Sibilla Aleramo, Eleonora Duse, Cordula Poletti : una storia d'amore nell'Italia della belle époque, © Mursia, 2011.

Cordula « Lina » Poletti, Il Poema Della Guerra, © Nicola Zanichelli, 1918. All rights reserved.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando, 1928.

© LASTESIS

© Non Una Di Meno. All rights reserved.

At the heart of the three-day exhibition Manchestermodern: past present future, curated by Factory International and CHAOS SixtyNine with the support of CHANEL, a special edition of the Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon [Literary Rendezvous at Rue Cambon] was held at the Victoria Baths in Manchester.

In conversation with writer and critic Erica Wagner, author Jeanette Winterson, CHANEL ambassador and spokesperson Charlotte Casiraghi along with actress and CHANEL ambassador Kristen Stewart reveal what constitutes, according to them, the powers of literature. Together, they also talk about the books that are dear to them and the female literary figures who inspire them.

(00:00) : Opening by Charlotte Casiraghi 

(02:21) : Introduction by Erica Wagner  

(06:37) : Reading an extract of “Why be Happy When You Could be Normal?” by Charlotte Casiraghi 

(10:14) : On trauma and resilience 

(13:41) : Kristen Stewart’s vision of writing 

(15:42) : Reading an extract of “Heroines”, Kate Zambreno by Kristen Stewart 

(18:49) : On women empowerment through writing 

(21:09) : On freedom of movement 

(21:53) : Extract from “A Taste of Honey”, Shelagh Delaney 

(24:34) : Jeanette Winterson’s vision of writing 

(28:05) : Recreating language 

(29:33) : Kristen Stewart and her role as a director 

(30:54) : On being uncomfortable when creating 

© 2023 by Cities of Literature. All rights reserved.

© 2023 Manchester Literature Festival. All rights reserved.

© Jeanette Winterson. All rights reserved.

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, ©  Grove Press, 1997.

Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, Vintage, 1997.

Jeanette Winterson, The Passion, © Grove Press, 1997. 

Jeanette Winterson, The Passion, Vintage, 1997.

Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story, © Grove Press, 2019. 

Jeanette Winterson, Frankissstein: A Love Story, Vintage, 2019.

Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes, © Grove Press, 2021. 

Jeanette Winterson, 12 Bytes, Vintage, 2021.

Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River: Ghost Stories, ©  Grove Press, 2023.

Jeanette Winterson, Night Side of the River: Ghost Stories, Vintage, 2023.

©  UK Honours System.

©  University of Oxford. All rights reserved.

©  The University of Manchester.

© Toronto International Film Festival. All rights reserved.

Into the Wild, © Paramount, 2007. Courtesy of River Road Entertainment, LLC.

PANIC ROOM © 2002 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Courtesy of Columbia Pictures

Catherine Hardwicke, Bill Condon, Chris Weitz, David Slade, Twilight, © Summit Entertainment, 2008-2012. All rights reserved.

Pablo Larrain, Spencer, © Shoebox Films, 2021. A Fabula, Komplizen, Shoebox Films Production, 2021.

© Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. All rights reserved.

© Académie des Césars. All rights reserved.

Olivier Assayas, Clouds of Sils Maria, © CG Cinéma, 2014.

Kristen Stewart, The Chronology of Water, © Scott Free Productions. All rights reserved. 

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, Vintage, 2012.

Jeanette Winterson, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, © Grove Press, 2012. 

Kate Zambreno, Heroines, © Semiotext(e), 2012.

© Theatre Royal Stratford East.

© ITN / Getty images.

Shelagh Delaney, A Taste of Honey, © Grove Press, 1994. 

Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own, 1929.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando, 1928.

Écoutez la journaliste Lauren Bastide en conversation avec Seynabou Sonko, autrice de « Djinns », son premier roman publié aux Éditions Grasset en 2023. Ensemble, elles évoquent les mythes et rituels sénégalais à l’origine de l’univers onirique développé dans son livre et leur influence sur son écriture. Elles reviennent sur son désir d’explorer, grâce à la littérature, la complexité de la nature humaine et sur la manière dont elle a élaboré un langage original, empreint d’oralité et de références socio-culturelles. 

En marge des Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon, le podcast « les Rencontres » met en lumière l’acte de naissance d’une écrivaine dans une série imaginée par CHANEL et Charlotte Casiraghi, ambassadrice et porte-parole de la Maison.

Seynabou Sonko, Djinns, © Éditions Grasset & Fasquelle, 2023.

Stephenie Meyer, Saga Twilight @Hachette Livre, 2005-2008.

© J.K. Rowling, 1997-2007, Harry Potter.

© Université Paris 8 ©2019 - Tous droits réservés.