From June 18 until July 18, Sami Tchak has been with Annie Ferret, in four -handed writing residence at Villa Salammbô. These two writers are carrying a project that met the support of the French Institute in Tunisia.
“These places where the soul shudder” is indeed a four -hand writing project, which starts from the powerful emotion that one feels in front of certain places, marked by man and his history.
After many trips, this duo of writers thus puts his suitcases in Tunis to soak up the soul of the city and discover its ruins and its old districts.
To deepen their theme and meet Tunisian writers and the literary and French -speaking public, Sami Tchak and Annie Ferret were invited to several literary meetings at the Alliance Française, in Kairouan on July 6, in Tunis on July 7 and at the French Institute in Sousse on July 11.
Each meeting obeys a particular configuration and the two writers intervene together or separately.
This cycle was initiated from June 21 by a meeting organized by the Intersignes laboratory around the theme of contemporary literatures and the myth of the writer.
Several other meetings are on the program, especially around the question “In what French is we written?” ». This last meeting will take place on Friday July 7 at the Alliance Française de Tunis, still in partnership with the French Institute.
To better understand Sami Tchak and soak up his work, a notile of the Alliance Française, allows you to discover a synthesis of its career.
Born in Togo in 1960, Sami Tchak teaches philosophy and then followed studies of sociology at the Sorbonne.
His research on prostitution is carrying out him in Latin America, the framework of four of his novels. Winner of the Grand Prix of Black Africa in 2004 and the Ahmadou-Kourouma Prize in 2007, he returned in 2011 to the African continent with “Al Capone Le Malien”, inspired by the famous crook Donatien Koagné. Also essayist,
Sami Tchak says his career and his vision of literature in “The color of the writer” in 2014. After “So spoke my father” in 2018, “The Fables of the Moineau”, his latest novel, wins the prize for “the French Renaissance”, jointly awarded by the academy of overseas sciences.
Among the works of Sami Tchak the paradise of puppies “or” the ethnologist and the sage “occupy a special place.
