This weekend the Saint Malo, Brittany-based international literary and film festival, Etonnants Voyageurs, or Astonishing Travelers opens, and as usual, promises to be quite astonishing.
Originally founded by French writer Michel Le Bris in 1990 to celebrate travel writing, the festival has since become the country's leading world literature event. In 2007 Le Bris and other writers, including JMG Le Clézio, Edouard Glissant and Tahar Ben Jelloun, published a manifesto entitled "For a World Literature in French" and are in large part responsible for broadening the scope of French-language literature to include "Francophone writers" such as Alain Mabanckou, Maryse Condé, and Dany Laferrière.
This year, festival organizers are particularly proud: Etonnants Voyageurs has joined the World Alliance, a partnership of literary festivals that includes Edinburgh, Jaipur, Berlin, Beijing, Melbourne and PEN World Voices. Writers from Etonnants Voyageurs will consequently be invited to World Alliance partner festivals, paving the road to translations and foreign rights sales for their books. A representative from each of these festivals will be present in Saint Malo along with publishers, booksellers, filmmakers, musicians, artists and over 200 authors.
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D'après un article original d'Olivia Snaije publié dans le magazine Publishing Perspectives (en lien).
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