From May 24 to 27, 2018, the 31st edition of the Chambéry First Novel Festival, organized bythe Lectures Plurielles association.
Twenty-two French-speaking and European authors will be present to inspire you with their first novels: meetings, debates, musical readings, literary balls, workshops, literary aperitifs, book signings, and more. It's a way for everyone to discover new authors, explore new discoveries, and celebrate books. Brigitte Giraud, this year's guest of honor, and five authors from previous editions, Arno Bertina, Olivier Bourdeaut, René Frégni, Wilfied N'Sondé, and Valérie Perrin, will be present during these four days of festivities.
This year, the Festival, the University of Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB), andthe University of Grenoble-Alpes collaborated on the first novels from the 2017/2018 Italian selection. Accompanied by their professors, Cristina Vignali Poli, lecturer atthe Faculty of Arts, Languages, and Humanities and researcher at the Languages, Literature, Societies, Cross-Border and International Studies (LLSETI) laboratory, and Florence Courriol, professor in the Grenoble/Padova binational master's program, Literature and Italian department at the Faculty of Foreign Languages in Grenoble, Italian students from both universities wrote a press review and translated an excerpt from each of this year's Italian shortlisted debut novels. The students who participated in the project will co-host the translation workshop scheduled during the Festival on Saturday, May 26, at 2 p.m., guided by Florence Courriol, in the presence of the Italian winner, Filippo de Matteis.
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