She is definitly one of the raising French Crime talents abroad: Discover her new character: Franka Kehlmann, a heroine with an austere, masculine appearance, and a velvety voice. From East-German grand-parents who had fled East-Berlin and daughter to a mother, singer who committed suicide and a father, historian, she is in charge of her brother, an amateur photographer delivering pizzas.
In this adventure, she tracks a serial killer who takes his victims through the Gehenna of their worst nightmares. Foreign Press about D. She is a grumpy retired police inspector who would never spend a day without her best friend: On the other hand, there is Ingrid, an American girl in love with Paris. She gives massages at day and does stripteases at night. This mismatched and funny duo lives in a Parisian working class district, and never refuses to help a friend in trouble.
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One of the gardeners is missing, the big and kind brad — the one who looks like an ogre. While summoned to the police station, ingrid discovers that brad, her childhood friend, was on the verge of contacting her. He is the ideal suspect Her paris is alive.
Burned alive, with a tyre around his body, two steps away from a pool, Vidal used to be a business lawyer, specialized in franco-african relations and arming contracts. Wi l l i ng a nd f u l l of energ y, L ola t a kes over t h is new investigation with her friend Ingrid, parallel to the police.
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Political-legal scandals intertwine in a way reminiscent of those thousandpiece puzzles that superintendent Lola Jost is fond of. She will have to piece this one together time and again before being able to make out the whole picture In Paris, Sacha Duguin is accused of the murder of his superior who had dabbled in insider influence linked to arms contracts and suspicious retro commissioning processes in Africa.
A Stradivarius worth more than twenty four million Francs is stolen from Meyer, a brilliant young violinist murdered in the middle of the street. Louise Morvan, commissioned by the owners of the unique instrument, hides out across the street from the apartment of an antique dealer, Christian Donovan, an antique instrument specialist. Suspense novel, pages - and new edition Louise is sent to Japan by a French bishop.
His nephew seems to be in trouble, and the Monseigneur wants to keep his reputation above suspicion. In fact, his nephew, Florent, is involved in mysterious relationships with a depressive politician, a charismatic Yakuza - Boss Gonzo -, and an old woman who deals in stolen artworks. Louise is slowly beginning to understand the situation, when her translator, Miss Eve, is found badly murdered.
Blood Sisters Suspense novel, pages - and new edition Someone had taken a photo of Victor ia with their polaroid. Someone had killed her. Someone had staged a horribly meticulous scenario. This spectacle was on the level of dangerous insanity. Do the Hindu God Shiva, the brilliant artist and the terrorist share a common element of destruction? Louise Morvan abandons Paris to confront Berlin, the city where ex-militants of the Red Army faction have transformed themselves and play with reality and the virtual, dreaming of victim art, the art of the future.
The Lizard King Suspense novel, pages - and new edition Louise Morvan is f inally going to shed light on the mysterious death of her uncle, Julian Eden, whose agency she inherited. He found the cop from whom the dossier was taken away and who was transferred to the provinces in Suspense novel, pages - Techno Bohemian Suspense novel, pages - During a rave party organized on private property, two young girls are seen jumping off a cliff together. The autopsy reveals that they had been drugged to the bone: The police concludes suicide without a doubt. Nothing helps to establish her identity.
All the members of the family — or rather of the Domeniac dynasty — have also received this email. And if those two have been lovers in another life, the wound remains quite fresh for Louise. An extremely dynamic investigation in the heart of the family secrets, a series of characters, one stranger than the other, involving drug dealing and GMO. Il plaqua sa main sur sa avec ses doigts pour que les nt des modulations. La corde emprisonna le cou. Assassinated by a psychopath. Because her voice tweaked his desire. Because he needed to destroy her. Because she was the seventh in his series.
Obsessed by the killer, he gets help from Martine Lewine, cop and sharpshooter whose magical voice could overcome the crazy man. She will serve as bait. Il appelait urs par tous les pores au mais nos regards se nt et se quittaient et ent. Paul Dark, the director of a scientific research laboratory, is found dead at home, poisoned by strychnine, a poison which causes horrible pain.
Lire After Adamsberg, discover the Evangelists series! An ex-cop fired from the police investigates with a team of three historians, Marc, Mathias and Lucien. Intrigued and unnerved, she turns to her neighbours: Vandoosler, an ex-cop fired from the police for having helped a murderer to escape, and three impecunious historians, Mathias, Marc and Lucien - the three evangelists. They agree - both because they need the money and out of sheer curiosity - to dig around the tree and see if something has been buried there.
They find nothing but soil. A few weeks later, Sophia disappears and nobody worries too much until her body is found burned to ashes in a car. Who killed the opera singer? Un peu plus loin sur la droite Suspense novel, Shortlisted for Dcwa original edition in How do you solve a murder without a body? Keeping watch under the windows of the Paris f lat belonging to a politician's nephew, ex-special investigator Louis Kehlweiler catches sight of something odd on the pavement. A tiny piece of bone.
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Human bone, in fact. When Kehlweiler takes his find to the nearest police station, he faces ridicule. Obsessed by the fragment, he follows the trail to the tiny Breton fishing village of Port-Nicolas - in search of a dog. But when he recruits 'evangelists' Marc and Mathias to help, they find themselves facing even bigger game.
Sans feu, ni lieu Suspense novel, to be published in the UK in Why are Louis Kehlweiler alias the German Marc, Lucien and Mathias hidden away in their run-down shack on the rue Chasle in Paris - interested in a simple-minded fool who seems blatantly unlikable, and who everyone is sure is guilty, including them? From the ancestral fear of the werewolf to that of the plague, the catharsis i s a s ef fe c t ive for t he characters as it is for the readers. Edmond Baudouin is a drawer. He r pr o s e h a s a n unusual deftness, a wry humour.
He only thinks about boxing, going up on the ring again and again, even in the shabbiest places, facing less and less commendable opponents. During an evening of victory - but at what a price! Autour des yeux, au-dessus des pommettes hautes, des rhizomes de rides profondes. Une fatigue centenaire embrumait le regard du vieux.
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Si vous voulez, je peux vous expliquer. With dirty hands but an almost clear mind, he begins to understand that he has been beating up intellectuals, journalists, who never defend themselves. One night, he decides to ask his victim some questions before beating him up; he understands some of it and ends up embarking to Marseille, looking for a veteran from the Algerian War. The novel turns into a roadmovie, concurrently with the story of a barracks during the dirty war: A d a r k t e x t of incredible force […].
A resounding success and confirmation of a leading author. Hi s hard-hitting and bitter prose competes with a backstory that never excludes reflection or humanity. This is great and very noir art. Le Fruit de vos entrailles [The fruit of your loins] with the publisher Toute Latitude. In he published his second thriller: Fakirs Suspense novel, pages - Foreign rights: When John Nichols arrives to identify the body of an old friend, he is immediately caught up in the detritus of Alan Musgrave's life, the side of Paris the tourists don't see, where everyone has a past but very few count on a future.
Now there's a maverick police lieutenant on the prowl who thinks that Musgrave's suicide was murder. As the horrific extent of police abuse is revealed, the race is on to find the link between a slew of recent suicides - and the key to it is buried deep in Nichols's past. She is an acknowledged Proust and Yourcenar specialist. She writes Crime novels which give an insight in Literature. Spanish political refugees who arrived in France after the fall of Barcelona in and were dumped in camps, while Neruda chartered a boat, the Winnipeg, helping them to get back to Chili.
One morning, Maria Loncomilla, the unhappy chambermaid, is forced to confront the formidable Villa director to inform her of the disappearance of Celia Martin, one of the guests… Press review: The narrator, diabolically skillful, quite talented in exploring souls and decrypting the twists and turns of history, builds a real suspenseful thriller tinged with a keen irony for the environment she describes and a true tenderness for others.
We warmly recommend this novel as well as all her previous works …. Inspector Foucheroux is called from Paris to investigate. He soon discovers that the victim was as ruthlessly ambitious as the pretentious intellectuals on his list of suspects, and that almost everyone who knew her had a motive to kill. Commissaire Foucheroux, a regular character in the books of Estelle Monbrun, and federal agent bradford take on the investigation as a team, and uncover the incredible truth of the Yourcenar affair.
Funny and cruel, half-way between Agatha Christie and David Lodge. In he interrupted his studies and enrolled in the White Army. His exile took him to Turkey and then to Paris where he arrived in By night he worked driving taxis and by day he became a fiction-writer. In , he moved to Munich where he worked for Radio Liberty. He died in without ever seeing his country again. In contrast to his literary rival Vladimir Nabokov who, with already a great body of Russian works behind him, switched languages and set about writing in English, Gazdanov himself never took that step.
Gazdanov drew inspiration from two sources. French or, more precisely, Paris. These two currents, whose waters interflow but are always discernible, make up the distinctive character of his work. He must have recognized himself in them. The sequence of events and their consequences are unforeseeable; no one is master of their destiny and only fate decides. But in his novels, more explicitly from The Ghost of Alexander Wolf onwards, we witness a total reversal of existentialist discourse. It is not that Gazdanov rejects its relevance but rather that he decides, given the consequences it engenders, to fight against it.
Of course, chance is always there ready to destroy the best laid plans; but we nevertheless remain entirely responsible for our actions. Night R oa ds, w hich firViviane st Hamy appeared in , is a major work of R ussia n exile Viviane Hamy literature. Viviane H amy administers the rights for Viviane Hamy it worldwide , with the exception of Poland. At the wheel of his taxi, every night parisiens. Au volant de son taxi, toutes les he follows the labyrinth of streets in the capital and itsil parcourt suburbs, as well as.
Un texte hors du commun. Alexandria is the cosmopolitan scene of an abundant time. The Orient in all its splendor meets the Occident in war. We witness the greatness and the decadence of a city and of its inhabitants. He studied Law at the Athens University. He tra nslat ed severa l g reat aut hors: It is an urban saga layered with a family chronicle and a tableau of all the Diasporas that come together on their way to this anchored Cytherea of the Mediterranean.
Mira Popovic tells us stories of her childhood, love stories, and pure fantasies which take a different view of the everyday. This collection vigorously unites burlesque, tenderness and humour. We meet a man fascinated by a pair of subtle grey-black shoes, as well as a pitcher patterned with kitsch flowers and despised by a whole family, which is nevertheless stolen by a thief. There is even an apparently useless key which the author decides to put into her text so as not to throw it away.
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In the name of its obvious relation to the body, the performance act related to the multimedia arts imposed themselves on me as being really suitable medium to question these subjects. It comes from a series of performances in which the eggs are in the same time the material, the matter and the symbol of its original creation, 97 invites to explore the limits of the social life. The egg is here the symbol of the exploitation of the animal world by the humans modelled on the industrialization and the intensive farming.
While her performance, Marseille become a human farm, and the spectator is the exploited matter. Christian Messier — Canada — Edition More known in the performance field, he participated in several events in a dozen of countries. We have also seen him in Viva! In painting, his work has been showed at the Oeil de poisson, at the 36 Gallery and at Pan! Peinture of which is one of the founders and more recently at the Verticale Gallery.
Christian Messier is also the author of the web magazine Punctum which deals with visual arts in Quebec, and the associate of Pagede. We also work with specific publics for the sake of social diversity. We choose to take over atypical scenic and always different spaces — The performances are modified by the location where they fall within. They are also modified by the links created between the actors and the audience. We encourage the improvisation, the performance in situ and the interaction. His performances have been showed in numerous European festivals.
He has been part of this ultimate generation who has grown up under the Tito government, historical coincidence which has let a mark on his work. He sets different devices — video, cabaret, plastic art — with purpose to redefine his own norms. The body remains a central component of his work. The Couvre-feu performance explores the civil disobedience. The artist associates his flesh to other body forms — social, military or political bodies — relying on the time and space dimensions and invites the spectator to make its own way through.
The Suicides Agency prepares those who deliberately wish to kill themselves. It informs them, advises them and intents to give them the civic and republican values necessary to the good working of our society. Real agency, the passers-by and the public are invited to come and select their way of kill themselves: Poetical media-centred criticism of a generation who has not anymore political ideas , she opens the Suicides Agency to conquest new territories, and who knows, the new public policies?
It collaborates with circassians and plastic artists. Graduated of the Fine Arts, Elizabeth Saint Jalmes has developed an underground work of plastic and performer artist. Mitsi, soft fabric sculptures which need to be activated by the human body, fluctuate between installation and performance. What are those volumes of the consumer society relating? Which forms do they take? The one of a plague? So many questions asked in the form of strolling and installations.
Natacha Muslera — France Since more than 20 years, Natasha Muslera has been exploring the fields of experimental music, sound poetry and plastic arts. Her main material as performer is her voice. A Ryanart flight intendant in uniform, hysteric, exults with her voice and her microphone an array of harmful, dangerous and harsh sounds; she becomes out of control, rebellious. In the continuity of the performance, this flight intendant goes even further: Diverting the housework codes, the artist transfers the private, the intimate and the confidential in a collective action.
Creating a particular space inserted into the city, inviting the anonymous to make a household spectacle of itself and sharing its little secret of everyday life, she makes the street an appropriation subject: If you cross an open-air laundry room, stop, bring your clothes, iron those of the others, those of the city, yours.
The aesthetic of their work reminds the industrial theme, including in that way several facets of the postmodern in the utilization of the different mediums. So is established a communication in which the verbal and the gesture form an alliance. Christian Nicosia, in the same time video maker artist and designer of plastic installations grasp the concept literally. It is the charge of the volunteer to express short answers avoiding the skirmishes. Non Grata — Estonia — Edition The memory of a car crash, the windows which smash to pieces, the petrol which spurt out of the engine, the face which falls against the asphalt and what happens next: The control of the blood alcohol level: Though, the driving licence revocation.
The Collective Non Grata distinguishes itself by the anonymity of its members, its dissociation of the local artistic scene, its scorn about the mass media, its wild actions and its performances which can last several days. Graduated of the Academy of Theatre of Cracow, Dorota Androzt combines theatrical play and performance energy. Anna Kalwajtys is a performer; her favourite weapon is the provocation. Krzysztof Arszyn Topolski is stemmed from improvised music. This is the opportunity to claim the public areas as an interstice of social talk and to question the place of the woman.
Her work as performer is essentially based on the mathematics dynamic of chaos. The city becomes then a macro geometric space, the result of the ideal forms of nature. The purpose of this action is to decompress the technical and objective alienation of the physical symbolism to the mathematics.
As freeing the figure of the speech, the meaning takes shape with the action. The Collective performs regularly in France and abroad, in public areas and art centres, on festivals and national stages which include performance in their programme. The group designs new forms of artistic writings; urban performances or installation performances in immersion which offer acts of subversion of reality and create innovative perspectives in the relation between audience, artist and the location of the representation.
Objet Direct This group made up of five members, works about the sound experimentation.
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The performance as combinatorial game, the Collective consider a real meeting in the limits of a physical and sound gesture. Go from the darkness to the light. Activist cultural performer, she is currently living in Berlin where she has a sharp-eyed on the social configurations. Her point of view: The interactivity is a part of the creation process. The performer calls for participation and testimonies on the web site http: A word to the wise is enough. The first one is stage director in contemporary theatre.
The third one works with the choreographers Vera Mantero and Francisco Camacho. It is about creating a time of reflection in a socio-political context in deep mutation and to redefine the very function of show. He develops his own forms, a mix of acted-theatricality and bodies in action. His work explores a maternal, filial, emotional, political, art-tivist link and calls in the public invited or passer-by.
Lucille Pradier This young art performer has started on the boards then has taken a performance course in the University of Hamburg. Amateurette rooms are furnished rooms from objects recovered in the streets or given object. The public takes over the places and can leave traces behind him. Debates, lectures can be organised in there.
There are as palimpsests which rewrite different phases of the love: Creating freedom of expression zones in the flows organised by our society, Random modifies our relation to space, ourselves and the others. With a view to a permanent relation between the art and the life, these performers experiment the interaction between actors and spectators questioning the place of each one in the artistic creation. Her work is about the relations and the communication, the intimacy and the seduction.
Monte dans la voiture! He has taken training courses of trumpet player, drummer and music theoretician. Schmidt-Chemnitzer is an adept of the physical resistance and puts his body to the test while his durational performances.
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Dancer, plastic artist and performer, she was a part of numerous festivals in Germany and abroad from Guangzhou to Venice including Tel Aviv or Amsterdam. A display panel explains the process. It is the responsibility of the spectator to fulfil the basic needs of the protagonist of the experiment and to take care of her. An attempt which gives many questions, notably how the citizen perceives his contemporary creators.
Victoria Stanton — Canada — Edition Victoria Stanton is an art performer, video director, photographer and also fictions, poetries, critical texts and songs author. Her work includes the sound, the group actions in public area, video-projected performances, and individual meetings. She is interested in appropriating and disrupting the everyday life, in spontaneous intimacy and in treading vulnerability. Some performance works have been transformed into photo-installation or single-channel video. Performance writing and critical writing have appeared in several publications. Stanton is also the CEO of a bank: Such a lofty name deserves a big enterprise to match.
The performer explores the interpersonal relations form the proximity to the distance, from the limits to the surpassing and the female body image as cultural model.
The human being in its social context serves as a base for my work in general. He has been exhibiting since , performing since In , he represented the Czech Republic at the Venice Biennial. His work is politically engaged and quite subversive. Switzerland is in their backpack and they bear it during their lifelong exile and so they have plenty work to do.
They work on the traumatism and the stimulation of their youth, they have their own language and the risks notion that they try to express in their own way.