Rencontre : Culbuter le malheur
Gesprek
Saturday 21 September
18.00u - 19.00u
Price: Gratuit / Gratis / Free
Language: French
Location: Scene
with
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse - Modération : Celestina Jorge Vindes
Presentations
A meeting around the key book (Mémoire d’encrier) marking the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda. One million deaths in three months. Silences and silences. Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse provides the right words to memorialize through a radical articulation of what is a powerful desire to live in the present, now.
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Entre celles qui sont parties
Et ceux qui restent
Ce long déboîtement
De bout en bout
Aube et crépuscule
Trop tôt ou trop tard
Nous sommes les pièces
désarrimées
D'un récit qui s'est trop
longtemps
Écrit en niant nos légendes
Mots ravalés cris enfouis
Une agonie de papier
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Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, Culbuter le malheur
Our speakers
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, born in Butare, Rwanda, in 1979, survived the Tutsi genocide and moved to France in 1994. Her first novel, Tous tes enfants dispersés (Autrement, 2019; J’ai lu, 2021), won the Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie, and her second book, Consolée (Autrement, 2022; J’ai lu, 2024), received the Prix Kourouma. She has also published short stories, poetry, and a children’s book. Living in Bordeaux, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse is invited to Poetik Bazar for the release of her poetry collection Culbuter le malheur (Mémoire d’encrier, 2024).
Celestina Jorge Vindes
Celestina Jorge Vindes is behind Pépite Blues, a bookshop celebrating literature from Africa and its diasporas. It's also a space for encounters and exchanges around diverse cultural and artistic creations.