AKLF 2015 : Florence Noiville

The Alliance française du Bengale is happy to announce the participation of Florence Noiville  in the AKLF festival.

Come to Victoria Memorial Hall on Saturday 17 January to attend the talk “Border Crossings: Across the Language Divide” with Florence Noiville, K. Anis Ahmed (Bangladesh), Mohammed Hanif (Pakistan), moderated by Razi Ahmed, Director, Lahore Literary Festival. Guest of honour Nabaneeta Dev Sen.

Florence Noiville began her professional career in the financial sector, later becoming a journalist and literary critic for French newspaper Le Monde, where she has been working since 1994. She is now the Foreign Fiction Editor at the book section, Le Monde des livres. She received a Biography Award in 2004 for her biography of the Nobel Prize-winning American author Isaac Bashevis Singer. Her first novel La Donation was published in 2007 by Stock (and in English by Northwestern University Press under the title The Gift) and her second novel L’Attachement (Stock) came out in 2012 and will be published in English in 2015 by Seagull Books. She is the author of a dozen books for children and her books have been translated into 14 languages. From 2007 to 2010, she has hosted “Le Monde des Livres”, a literary show on French television channel LCI.