Cécile Wajsbrot au Festival international de la littérature

Cécile Wajsbrot au Festival international de la littérature © Le Bruit du Temps

The Festival international de la littérature (FIL) is an annual French-language, multidisciplinary, national and international literary festival whose mission is to promote literature, books and reading to various audiences.

The FIL is, every year, a 10-day festival of words taking place in the Montreal area. The FIL has also become an event that shines throughout the year and the province of Quebec, as well as increasingly abroad.
 

Cécile Wajsbrot 

Cécile-Wajsbrot Cécile-Wajsbrot | Cécile Wajsbrot was born in Paris in 1954. She is a novelist and essayist, and also a translator for English (Virginia Woolf) and German (Peter Kurzeck, Wolfgang Büscher).

Since her first novel, published in 1982, her work has been marked by the painful confrontation with her family history. Currently, she lives in Paris and Berlin, where she has received the prestigious prix de l’Académie de Berlin (French-German culture and literature prize) in 2016.

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