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Imposantes Finale – Impressive Finale -“Trag das Feuer weiter”/”I’ll take the Fire” von/of Leïla Slimani_English and German
"This last volume was very painful for me. There was grief for my father, but also for my country, or rather, my countries. I have given up on the idea of finding a place where I feel at home, where I truly belong. I have had to accept that I will never be the French woman I wanted to be, nor the Moroccan woman I would like to be. I am French as well as Moroccan, but both identities are very complex and fragile. There will always be people who say to me: You are not a real Moroccan.""Dieser letzte Band war für mich sehr schmerzhaft. Da war die Trauer um meinen Vater, aber auch die um mein Land…
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African Book Festival in Berlin – Three Days of Literature and Pleasure – deutsch-english
Once again, the large number of visitors to the ABF, most of them young people, gives one hope that African literature can be very much alive. Whoever gets involved in this festival for three days can get very close to African literature. All authors are present for the whole three days, they are not flown in for a short time but spend the days at the festival. And if you want, you can get very close to them. You can sit down with them and talk.
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Leïla Slimani: Schaut wie wir tanzen//Look, how we dance // Book Review
With her Morocco trilogy, Leïla Slimani sheds light on a chapter of French and Moroccan history that has still not been dealt with. It is not about black and white painting, because the history, the connections and developments of both countries and their people, are far too complex. Slimani's family comes from the upper middle class of the country. One can therefore speak of profiteers of the colonial era. And she makes no secret of it in her books. It is a global phenomenon of the colonial era that among the many victims and losers, there were also the people who took advantage of the occupation system. Morocco is no exception. The wonderful thing about this trilogy is that…
