Brisbane Writers Festival
The Brisbane Writers Festival will be held from 1st to 5th September!
Two francophone authors - Nicolas Dickner and Jean-François Vernay -
will be welcomed on Thursday September 2nd 2010 from 12:30 PM to 1:30 PM
at the State Library of Queensland (Auditorium 2)
Free entry!
Frenchmen Nicolas Dickner and Jean-François Vernay both focus on far-away places.
Nicolas’s fiction looks to the Aleutian village of Nikolski,
while Jean- François’s approach to
the
Australian novel has the intellectual playfulness associated with some of the best French critical writing.
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Nicolas Dickner
Nicolas Dickner won two literary awards for his first published work, the short story collection L'encyclopédie du petit cercle, including the Prix Adrienne-Choquette for the best collection of short fiction of the year. Nicolas's first novel, Nikolski, originally published in French, garnered rave reviews and numerous awards. With humour, charm and the sure touch of a born storyteller, Nicolas Dickner crafts a tale that shows the surprising links between garbage-obsessed archaeologists, pirates past and present, earthquake victims, sea snakes, several very large tuna fish, an illiterate deep-sea diver, a Commodore 64, a mysterious book with no cover, and a broken compass whose needle obstinately points to the Aleutian village of Nikolski. Nicolas is also the author of Boulevard Banquise, a children's book, and a second short story collection, Traité de balistique. Nicolas grew up in Quebec and studied visual arts and literature at university. He is currently a literary columnist for Voir and is working on his next novel.
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Jean-François Vernay
In The Great Australian Novel - A Panorama, Jean-François Vernay reflects on Australian literature on its own terms, rather than as a subsidiary of the Anglophone subset of world literature. Separating Australian fiction from its British beginnings, and tracing its differentiation through the inventive agency of authors as they take steps of their own according to inward and outward necessity - hrough migration, dispossession, marginalisation, experience without precedent, political commitment, and a determination to be heard, to be published, to gain recognition and reward - Jean-François' reflection is a decolonising project that brings a vitalising perspective to Australian literary studies. Jean-François is a resident of New Caledonia ; he is sensitive to recurrent themes in Australian literature including quest, conquest, isolation, the alien land and Australia as prison and paradise. |
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Jean-François Vernay's latest book
- Panorama du roman australien: des origines à nos jours 1831-2007 -
is also available in French (Hermann Press, 2009).
Copies of Panorama du roman australien
will be sold at the special price of $32 during this festival.
French version are available at reception for $35.
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http://www.brisbanewritersfestival.com.au
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