17 - 21 January 2010
LITERATURE
DIALOGUES AND DEBATES
A FRENCH FESTIVAL OF LETTERS
With
PRAKRITI FOUNDATION
François ROCA
Marion BATAILLE
Véronique TADJO
Alain MABANCKOU
Opening Tue 19th Jan 10.30 am
At The Courtyard by Marriot
All are invited
For more information contact AFM
Tel : 91 044 28279803, +919840376375
Readings and Interactions with
eminent French Language authors and their Indian counterparts. This festival
will delight Chennai
Alain Mabanckou is a Congolese
writer born in 1966 in Congo-Brazaville. He has written novels and poetries
which have won many prizes. He resides in the USA where he is teaching
literature at UCLA. He received the Prix Littéraire de l’Afrique
noire in 1998 for his first novel Bleu-Blanc-Rouge. Verre cassé
was awarded the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie in 2005 and
Mémoires de porc-épic received the Renaudot Prize in 2006.
François Roca is a
French illustrator born in Lyon in 1971. His passion for painting first
pushed him to exhibit oil painting portraits. In 1996, he started to illustrate
children books. The same year, he published the album La Reine des fourmis
a disparu.
He is now considered as one of the
most important French illustrators for children’s books and has published
more than twenty one illustrations with his friend Fred Bernard.
Véronique Tadjo is
an Ivorian poet and novelist born in 1955 in Paris. She completed her BA
degree at the Abidjan University and her doctorate at the Sorbonne University.
She received the Literary Prize from the Agence de Coopération Culturelle
et Technique in 1983 and the UNICEF Prize in 1993. She received the Grand
prix littéraire d’Afrique Noire in 2005.
Marion Bataille is a French
illustrator and photographer who was born in 1963. She studied Fine Art
and Graphic Design in Paris and started to work as a graphic designer for
many newspapers and publishing houses such as Le Monde, Centre Pompidou
or Gallimard. She wrote many books for children and her latest one, ABC3D
was published in USA, UK, Italy, Germany, Netherland, Spain, Japan, Israel
and in India by Tara Books, and all the best French Publishers. ABC3D is
her first book published in the U.K.
Marion Bataille is in residence
in Chennai with Tara Books from the 10th to the 17th of January to prepare
a new publication.
ABC3D is an interactive pop-up book
that brings the 3rd dimension to the alphabet
It would appeal to creative folk
of all kinds - architects, artists, graphic designers, typographers, craftspeople,
teachers, parents, children and ordinary book lovers.
Watch each letter pop-up and leap
off the page into another dimension in this deceptively simple, yet witty
and sophisticated work of art. ABC3D stretches the limits of what a book
could be, for every kind of reader – from the smallest finger to the oldest
eye.
ABC3D is part of Tara's French
Focus series – in association with the French Embassy in India – bringing
the most daring and creative visual books from France to the Indian reader.
Program
Sun 17th Jan
Time: 7.00 pm
Full Circle Bookshop : Marion Bataille
- Tara Books
"Chamiers" New # 85, Chamiers road,
R A Puram, Chennai - 28
Off: 044-4203 0733/ 4203 6833
Gita Wolf and Marion Bataille introduce
the new collaboration regarding ABC3D an interactive pop-up book that brings
the 3rd dimension to the alphabet
Mon 18th Jan
Time: 4.00 pm
Chandra Mandapa’ Space - Lecture
and discussion : Ms. Veronique Tadjo
1 Elliott Beach rd , Besant Nagar
Chennai - 90
Tue 19th Jan
Time: 10.30 am-
Meeting with Press
the Courtyard by Marriott Hotel
Anna Salai, Teynapet, Chennai
Time:11.00am
a seminar lecture and discussion with Véronique Tadjo, Marion Bataille
, François Roca
Time:1.00pm:
Lunch
Wed 20th Jan
Time: 4.00 pm:
Lecture
Oxford Bookstore : Mr.Francois Roca
with Chandamama Publications
Apeejay House
39/12 Haddows Road, Nungambakkam
Chennai – 06
Time: 12:20 pm
Interactive Session between Marion
Bataille and The Visual Communication Department of Loyola College
Loyola College , Nungambakkam Chennai
– 34
Time: 3.00 pm
Madras University – A meeting, lecture
and discussion with Alain Mabanckou and Veronique Tadjo and Ms.Chitra
Krishnan at - School of English and Foreign Languages .
F50 Hall
Chepauk, Chennai – 05
Thu 21st Jan
Time: 9 .00 am – 10.30 am:
Alain Mabanckou and Véronique Tadjo meeting with CREA publisher.
Time: 11.00am – 12.30 am
Alliance Française of Madras
- Auditorium
24 College Road, Chennai - 06
Lecture and Debate Alain Mabanckou
and Véronique Tadjo with 20 Tamil authors moderated by Chevalier
V. Sriram
Time: 12.30 am: Lunch
You can contact AFM for all information.
CONTACT AFM 2827 9803/2827 1477
www.af-madras.org
