JK Rowling banned from Harry Potter exhibit at Seattle Museum of Pop Culture
By Le Figaro Posted yesterday at 5:58 p.m, To update 6 hours ago The 58-year-old author sparked controversy among her fans here in 2017 with comments labeled as “transphobic.” The Times / The Times/News Licensing/ABACA After making controversial statements about transgender people, the author of the British saga once again becomes “the one whose name […]
Gilles Perrault, the outraged writer
Gilles Perrault died on the night of August 2-3, 2023. MYCHELE DANIAU / – The former lawyer began his career as a spy novelist. Ultimately, it was the “red sweater” affair that contributed to the success. “I did what I could”, he wanted to be engraved in his grave. The writer and journalist Gilles Perrault, […]
Mowgli from the “Jungle Book”, the choice of a life
Perhaps it’s the arduous drive to Kanha National Park, one of the largest reserves in the state of Madhya Pradesh in central India, that clouds our vision. But Mowgli doesn’t seem to have grown. Against all odds, he’s just a little stronger, a little darker than in the films that made him famous. He really […]
German writer Martin Walser has died at the age of 96
He was accused of wanting to suppress the Nazi past, he defended himself against it, but asserted that the constant repetition of the depictions of these crimes would downplay their horror. The novelist and playwright Martin Walser, one of the most important writers and polemicists of the revival of German post-war literature, died on July […]
Nieves Herrero: “Carmen Cervera always knew what she wrote, but I have no grudges against her”
The life of Carmen Thyssen – or Tita Cervera – it was not a path full of roses and smiles; It could rather be described as a complex journey full of experiences and emotions, ups and downs. An exciting life that now becomes a novel with “The Baroness”, written by the popular journalist Nieves Herrero, […]
The 80 years of lies of the Via Rasella
AGI – Come back with me New revelations The book was first published in 1996, on the attack by the Gap, the patriotic action group founded on the initiative of the Italian Communist Party, on March 23, 1944 in Via Rasella, which was followed by the brutal Nazi retaliatory attack on the Fosse Ardeatine with […]
a children’s book whose sale to minors has been banned by the Home Secretary
Thierry Magnier found out about it through a journalist. On the morning of Monday, July 17, he found out by email that one of the children’s books in his catalogue, way too small by Manu Causse, falls within the scope of an order published on the same day in Official Newspaper. Signed by the Home […]
Once hard, always hard
This summer, Le Figaro Magazine publishes exclusively Volume II of Madeleine, resilientComic story about the heroic fate of a young woman in Paris under occupation. As soon as you enter his apartment, you can feel the scent of history: a library full of books, trinkets and photos, and a picture of a Virgin Mary between […]
six iconic books recommended by Le Figaro littéraire
All of Kundera’s novels and essays except The Festival of Insignificancewill be published in two volumes at the Pléiade, with a foreword and biographies of the works of François Ricard. Selected Pieces. The first part of the late writer’s work is written in Czech. With slowness (1995) he writes directly in French and reworks the […]
Aguas del Añarbe summarizes its history in the book United by Water.
Friday, July 7, 2023 at 6:56 p.m comment copy link Whatsapp Facebook Twitter LinkedIn telegram The construction of the Añarbe dam and a water supply network first and then the solution of the serious problem of sanitation and waste water treatment are the elements on which the book entitled “Urak elkartuta – United by water” […]