Soirée Littéraire 2013
A literary evening of contemporary writing in French , Soirée Littéraire 2013 will include readings from the original texts by French, Belgian and Swiss authors.

Soirée Littéraire, an evening of francophone literary encounters, is jointly presented by Pro Helvetia- Swiss Arts Council, Embassy of France/Institut Français en Inde, Embassy of the Kingdom of Belgium, Embassy of Switzerland, Alliance Française de Chandigarh and Alliance Française de Pondicherry.

With the aim to build audiences for contemporary writing in French, the event will take place in three cities and will include readings from the original texts by French, Belgian and Swiss authors followed by con...versations in English by local experts.

When: Wednesday, 20 March 2013, 6:30 pm
Venue: Embassy of Switzerland, New Delhi 110021
Entry by registration only 

The Authors
Nicolas Ancion, Belgium 
Nicolas Ancion was born in Liège (Belgium). He writes fiction for adults, young adults and children and is the author of several theatre plays and poetry collections. His books have been awarded many literary prizes. Humour is an essential ingredient in his works. The literary supplement of Le Monde, France's flagship daily newspaper, dubbed him "Lewis Carroll's true heir". He loves literary challenges and performances: he wrote a novel in public in 24 hours during the Brussels Book Fair (March 2010). He regularly uses web tools to share live writing. His novel, The 35-billion Euro Man, has been awarded the Prix Rossel des Jeunes in 2009 and is now touring as a theater play. This novel describes the abduction of one of the richest men in the world, Lakshmi Mittal, CEO of ArcelorMittal. The book is currently being adapted for a movie.

David Collin, Switzerland
David Collin was born in 1968 and lives in Fribourg (Switzerland). Les Cercles Mémoriaux (Memorial Circles, L'Escampette, 2012) is his second novel. His first was Train Fantôme (Phantom Train, Le Seuil, 2007). He has published some books with artists, and many short stories and essays in literary journals. He organizes literary events and is on the editorial board of the literary journal La Revue de Belles-Lettres. Since 2011 he has been series editor of Imprescriptible (Genocide Studies) for the Geneva publishing house Éditions Metispresses. David Collin is also involved in performing arts projects. And he produces cultural programmes for Espace 2, channel 2 of Switzerland's French-language public radio

Chowra Makaremi, France
Chowra Makaremi was born in 1980 in Shiraz (Iran). She is an anthropologist and tenured research scholar at the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris. She graduated from Sciences-Po Paris, France and the University of Montreal, Canada and has been a visiting scholar at Princeton, McGill and Columbia University. She has carried out ethnographic field work and published on issues of migration, asylum, racism and youth delinquency. Since 2010 she has been working on memoirs of violence and the post-revolution era in Iran. She has published Le Cahier d'Aziz. Au cœur de la révolution iranienne (Gallimard, Paris, in 2011) based on the memoirs of her grand-father. It will be published, in English translation by the Indian publisher Yoda Press in March 2013 under the title Aziz's Notebook: At the Heart of the Iranian Revolution.