Festival America 2022: America and its writers

AMERICA 2022 will welcome a choir made up of about sixty voices, and as many sensibilities, identities and trajectories that tell the reality of America and the world today. Through their words, these novelists, short stories, poets or essayists let out a cry of revolt or indignation, sound the alarm, call for combat, resistance, or affirm the right to be different.

At Vincennes, they will meet the public and readers, share their views, and above all make their voices heard.

This anniversary edition will also be an opportunity for AMERICA to welcome a large delegation of writers from indigenous communities in Canada and the United States. With them, another story will be tackled: that of peoples who almost disappeared under the battering of conquest and acculturation, but who continue to maintain a special relationship with the world around them.

On October 12, 2022, it will be five hundred and thirty years since Christopher Columbus “discovered” America. On this occasion, AMERICA will welcome a large delegation of writers from indigenous communities in Canada and the United States. With these twenty authors, another story will be tackled: that of peoples who almost disappeared under the battering of conquest and acculturation, but who continue to maintain a special relationship with the world. that surrounds them.

Because a new family was born within the North American literary landscape: without any exoticism, these writers express the questions of peoples who seek to maintain their identity and their heritage, while responding to the challenges of the present. They give us to read powerful and inspired works where the beauty, originality and strength of their universe still resonate.

Today’s Indians and Inuit are building a living culture that fits naturally into a universal dimension, while being the heirs to a tradition, a history and a memory that occupy a unique place in the patrimonium of mankind.

Among the guests of this edition, Jonathan Franzen, Louise Erdrich, Richard Ford, Emma Cline, Natasha Trethewey, Russell Banks, Guadalupe Nettel, Ta-Nehisi Coates, J. Courtney Sullivan, Julie Otsuka, Viet Thanh Nguyen, Katherena Vermette. And even more.

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