This important book by two leading scholars of Africa examines a series of issues that are central to the question of the postcolonial.

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun gained international recognition with Bye Bye Africa (1999, best first film, Venice Film Festival).

As promised, we have compiled below a list of the many comics that were mentioned during our First French Comics Apero

You’ll find below our selection of five picture books proving that friends achieve better things when they are together! GOGO ET GOLO SONT SUR UN BATEAU Gogo...

From 11 to 24 May 2020, Beyond Words – The French Institut's literature festival – is back and takes place online

On Tuesday 19th May at 6 P.M, the Mediatheque is organising an on-line “Drink & Draw” workshop with comic books artist Sébastien Vassant.

Comic books are an essential part of French society and the Ministry of Culture has announced that 2020 would be dedicated to the 9th art

Content about nature and the environment cherry-picked by the librarians of the Médiathèque and the Quentin Blake Library.

Meanwhile the Médiathèque and the Bibliothèque Quentin Blake of the Institut are closed, we've compiled a list of streaming platforms

An interview with the alpinist and comic book writer Jean-Marc Rochette.

Altitude has been published by SelfMadeHero with the support of the Institut français du Royaume-Uni via our Burgess Translation Programme

Little dancer aged fourteen has been translated from French to English by Willard Wood and will soon be published by Les Fugitives.

Until we can all meet together face to face again, our traditional reading group is switching online via Zoom.

An interview with poet Yves Bonnefoy

A Life Without End by Frédéric Beigbeder has been translated by Frank Wynne and published by World Editions.

Frederic Beigbeder's last novel translated into English by Frank Wynne is A Life Without End (Une vie sans fin).

Adeline Dieudonné's debut novel Real Life was published in France in summer 2018 and has now been translated into English

Let’s celebrate spring with these five picture book chosen by our librarians

A fierce and poetic debut on surviving the wilderness of family life.

Claire Marin, Elsa Dorlin and Barbara Cassin are philosophers respectiviely working on notions of rupture, defense and nostalgia.