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When speaking about Iceland, what springs to mind are the landscapes - both immense and desolate, a population that is introverted and a language that is incomprehensible. It is an unfair caricature, because Iceland is the worl...
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What does it mean to be Irish? What does it mean to be from this island, with its chequered history, its fierce independence, and an identity that is so strong yet so elusive? The Irish refer to it as “Irishness”.
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Erri de Luca and Claudio Magris are leading contemporary Italian writers, from different backgrounds. Erri de Luca, a former far-left activist, is Neapolitan, from the “South”. Claudio Magris lives and writes in Tri...
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Albert Camus is today's most widely read 20th century French writer. For the celebration in 2013 of the centenary of his birth, this documentary goes in search of his impassioned readers.
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Writers of Europe sets out to explore the countries of Europe and to depict them as perceived and experienced by one or several major figures of the literature they have produced.
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A dreamlike journey to (re)discover the Tales of the Arabian Nights: an enchanting immersion into a bountiful book - from India to Egypt, from the Maghreb to Paris.
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Yasmina Khadra's story is anything but ordinary-it is an epic tale. This best-selling author, whose early novels are set during the Algerian civil war in the 1990s, is not, as one would imagine, a woman.
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The committed portrait of a writer who is a symbol of the anti-apartheid struggle. Born in 1935 into an Afrikaans family that were sympathetic to racial segregation, André Brink rejected his family heritage and, via subversive ...
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