As part of the activities of the Senghor Chair of La Francophonie at the University of Savoie Mont Blanc and the seminar on Italian and cross-border studies at the Laboratoire Langages, Literature, Societies, Cross-Border and International Studies (LLSETI), on Wednesday, April 10, 2019, writer Aminata Aidara will give a lecture on“Existing at the Tip of the Pen: A Collection of Short Stories, a Thesis, a Novel.”
The lecture will take place at 3:30 p.m. in Room 11003 on the Jacob-Bellecombette campus.
About Aminata Aidara
Aminata Aidara, an Italian-Senegalese novelist and journalist, defended her dissertation titled “Existing Through the Pen: The Literature of Young French Generations of Immigrant Descent Through the Lens of Literary Anthropology” at the Sorbonne in 2016. She has published short stories in French and Italian (including, in 2014, the collection *La ragazza dal cuore di carta*, which received the Premio Chiara Inediti critics’ award). Her first novel, *Je suis quelqu’un*, was published in 2018 by Gallimard.
She is currently a guest French-language author with the Foundation for International Cultural Action in Mountain Regions (FACIM).
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Contacts: Frédéric Turpin and Massimo Lucarelli