MEET THE AUTHOR: PIERRE ASSOULINE

Conférence : Comment Écrire

Wednesday 23 April 06:30 pm

Le théâtre , Alliance Française de Singapour

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About the talk "Comment Écrire"

“You're not born a writer: you become one." Writing workshops or books never made a writer out of anyone who didn't have the qualities. The knowledge of certain techniques, and the help and advice of those who have “dealt with the teething problems” - the great writers - are, on the other hand, fruitful and effective help and support.

This advice is drawn from hundreds of interviews with writers around the world, or from their own texts, shedding light on their techniques, their methods - or their lack of methods - their failures, their tips and tricks... But they never share their recipes, because there are none. Literature isn't about “technique”, but sometimes it's about techniques too. Writing is a bit like standing in an empty house and watching for ghosts to appear. What makes a novel is this awareness that the world is bigger than we are.

60mins

Talk in French followed by a Q&A and a signing session

The Theatre, Alliance Française de Singapour

About Pierre Assouline

Born in 1953 in Casablanca. As a journalist, he is a regular contributor to “L'Histoire” as a columnist and member of the scientific committee, to the blog “La République des livres”, which he set up in 2005, and to various newspapers and magazines. As a writer, he is the author of some forty books, including ten biographies and as many novels, as well as dictionaries, investigations and documents.

As a radio broadcaster, he has produced series and theatrical adaptations for France-Culture. As a television producer, he has made five documentaries on writers for Arte and one on Bernard Pivot and Apostrophes for France 2. For the past twenty-five years, he has taught literary writing at Sciences Po-Paris and occasionally abroad (Société de lecture de Genève, École polytechnique de Zurich...). He is a member of the Académie Goncourt.

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