Alliance Française de Delhi Learn French, Delf-Dalf Exam, Indo-French Cultural Events
Date/Time
Date(s) - 09/02/2021
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Location
M.L Bhartia Auditorium – Alliance Française de Delhi
Categories
Alliance Française de Delhi in collaboration with the French Institute in India presents [In]Writing series.
What is [In]Writing?
[In]Writing is a series of meaningful dialogues with Indo-French authors focusing on the different aspects of writing.For our first [In]writing session, we will have a conversation session with Mr. Jean-Claude Perrier and Ms. Aanchal Malhotra.
About Mr. Jean-Claude Perrier
Born in 1957, Mr. Jean-Claude Perrier has devoted many of his books to India and the Indo-French literary connection. As a literary critic and journalist, he is writing extensively for the literary press He is considered as one of the most important French travelogue writers.
After having been the literary director of the first edition of Bonjour India in 2009, Mr. Perrier has been invited on the occasion of the Kolkata International Book Fair (February 2018), with France as the guest of honor, along with ten other French writers and publishers.
His last book, published in 2017, is reflecting the deep admiration Mr. Perrier is nourishing for André Gide as well as a playful literary mindset, while writing on the behalf of the 1947 Nobel awarded French novelist the Indian sequel of his masterpiece, entitling it Indian Paludes.
Aanchal Malhotra
Ms. Malhotra is an oral historian and author of ‘Remnants of A Separation: A History of the Partition through Material Memory’, published in French by editions Héloïse D’ormesson.
Her work has been shortlisted for the British Academy’s 2019 Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding, the Hindu Lit for Life Non-Fiction Prize, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay NIF Book Prize, and the Shakti Bhatt First Book Prize. Malhotra is the co-founder of the Museum of Material Memory and currently lives in Delhi.