Video interview
Lettres d’Europe at the SLO 2021

With Lucy Fricke and Isabelle Liber from Germany

Sun, 02/28/2021
10:00 AM Online

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EUNIC (European National Institutes for Culture) and the Salon du livre de l’Outaouais (SLO) are joining forces to present authors from six of its member countries. Discover the current voices of Italy, Germany, France, Austria, Greece and Belgium!
 

The work of Lucy Fricke, born in Hamburg in 1974, has won the author many prizes, including the stipend of the German Academy in Rome, residencies at New York’s Ledig House, Villa Kamogowa in Kyoto and Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul. „Daughters“ is her fourth novel. It was awarded with the Bavarian Book Award 2018 and will be made into a movie in 2020.

Since 2010, Lucy Fricke has organised Hamburg’s HAM.LIT youth literature and music festival, the city’s first. She lives in Berlin.
 
 
Isabelle Liber

Isabelle Liber, born in Avignon, graduated from the University of Strasbourg in Modern Literature, German and Linguistics. After training in publishing in Paris, she landed her first translation contract. Since then, her library has continued to grow, whether it be novels, children's books or essays. And, she says, there is still so much to discover - and translate! She has been living and working in Berlin since 2003.
 
The interview with Lucy Fricke and Isabelle Liber is moderated by Sonja Finck.
 
 
Elena Messner
Born in 1983 in Austria, Elena Messner studied comparative literature and Slavic studies in Vienna. Passionate about the Slavic world, she obtained a doctorate on the translation of contemporary Yugoslav authors into German. Currently, she is a professor of German at the University of Aix-Marseille. Nebel Maschine (Éditions Atelier, 2020) is her latest novel.
 

Mathilde Alet is a French-Belgian author who lives in Brussels. She also heads the Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel and is involved in the defence of women's rights. She has published two novels with Luce Wilquin, a Belgian publishing house, Mon lapin (2014) and Petite fantôme (2016). Her latest novel Sexy Summer, published by Flammarion (2020), was a finalist for the Prix Filigranes and the Prix Les Grenades/RTBF.
 
Hubert Addad
Born in Tunis in 1947, Hubert Haddad is the author of a first-rate work of fiction. From Un rêve de glace, his first novel, to Palestine, a fiction haunted by the Middle East conflict (Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie 2008, Prix Renaudot Poche 2009), or the rivers of stories in his Nouvelles du jour et de la nuit, Hubert Haddad involves us magnificently in his commitment as an artist and a free man.
 

Christos Markogiannakis studied law and criminology in Athens and Paris and worked for several years as a criminal lawyer in Crete. He is the author of crimino-artistic essays analyzing the representation of murder in art: Scènes de crime au Louvre (Le Passage editions, 2017) and Scènes de crime à Orsay (Le Passage editions, 2018), and of crime novels set in Greece: Au cinquième étage de la faculté de droit (Albin Michel editions 2018) and Mourir en scène (Albin Michel 2020). He currently resides in Paris.
 
Liana Cusmano
Liana Cusmano, born in Montreal, has Venetian and Calabrian roots. A graduate of McGill University, Liana writes short stories, poems and film scripts. In June 2018, Liana won the Slam poetry competition in Montreal. Liana's poems and short stories have been published in the anthologies The Radiance of the Short Story (Universidade de Lisboa, 2018). Liana wrote the screenplay for The Woman Final, which was screened at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015.