Literary meeting with Leïla Bouherrafa
Tuesday April 9 from 14:00 p.m. to 15:30 p.m. at the Education BU Free entry and open to all.
The BU Saint-Denis Education and the association La Réunion des livres offer you a literary meeting with Leila Bouherrafa, Prix du Novel Métis des Lycéens 2023.
Tuesday April 9 from 14:00 p.m. to 15:30 p.m. at the Education BU (Bellepierre site).
Free entry and open to all.
Leila Bouherrafa is winner of the 2023 Métis High School Novel Prize for her novel “You deserve a country”.
It tells the story of the struggle of an exile in France, where one is never quite “French enough”, as the author writes.
At the same time he tells the story of an emancipation, his own, (in an unsanitary hotel run by a slumlord, obliged to do the cleaning and in particular to polish the toilets of the café of a certain Mrs. Meng...) a language that is both biting, poetic, and powerful to express the anger that makes it vibrate.
Learn more about the author
Leïla Bouherrafa was born in 1989 in Paris. There she taught French in an association which welcomes young refugees. His first novel, “La Dédicace” (2019), from Allary Éditions, was awarded the First Novel Prize at the Le Touquet Paris-Plage Book Fair, while the second, “You deserve a country”, (2022) still from Allary Éditions was awarded the VLEEL 2022 prize, and is part of the selection of numerous prizes before receiving today the one awarded to it by the high school students of the Roman Métis 2023.
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