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April 7 to 9, 2017 - Deauville

FESTIVAL BOOKS & MUSIC
For more than a decade, this unique Festival in the French cultural landscape has endeavored to mix and unravel the links that unite literature and music.

Each year in spring, the Deauville Books & Music Festival honors writers inspired by music. Dozens of authors and musicians animate this festival on a different theme with each edition. Continuing the path initiated in 2013 to explore different literary territories, the 2017 edition will be dedicated to Creole literature. True to its foundations, the Festival continues its exploration by favoring sharing, openness, discovery and high standards. Values ​​put at the service of literary and musical creation and of an audience each year more numerous, attentive and curious.

30 meetings, 50 authors, musicians, artists, guest editors
Meetings, workshops, musical readings or concerts, you are at the heart of the Festival and its delightful program. Often unpublished, always rare and intimate moments open to all.
The Creole Variations Program
By their diversity, their interbreeding, their imagination and their openness to the world, the writers of Creole culture have imposed themselves in the literary landscape with an unequaled force. A liveliness which is also expressed in music. The program takes a look at Creole literatures of French expression, from the Caribbean to the Indian Ocean. A rich, diverse, committed literature.
Roulez jeunesse program
A place - the youth area - multiple workshops and meetings and a long-awaited school day for nearly 3000 students.
In the wind, the program of French literary news
A program organized around three literary prizes to accompany and support current books inspired by music.

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  • Michel-Édouard Leclerc: Books & Music, "a wonderful festival"

    Two thousand Norman students were present to attend the Prix des Ados 2017 ceremony in Deauville, which rewarded Claire Loup, author of the novel "Run Billie" (Gallimard Jeunesse editions).
    Partner of the Prix des Ados since 2009, Michel-Edouard Leclerc returned to the foundations of this long-term commitment in the Deauville Books & Music festival. “There is a real demand for culture, but it is very difficult to bring writers, artists and the public together; hence the festivals. A festival like that of Deauville which combines music and literature, it's great. It is necessary, for Leclerc, second distributor of books in France, to accompany this type of festival ”, reaffirms the CEO of the group E. Leclerc. “Youth are open, curious. This is the time when you can make people love reading and discover great texts. The interest of a festival like that of Deauville is that we take the time to read complete texts with a narration and a story. In cultural training, this is fundamental. I am a defender of reading. I find it very good that in Deauville, booksellers, associated cultural spaces, the Academy, private and public establishments defend this type of reading. "

  • BOOKS & MUSIC FESTIVAL - Preview in pictures

    From April 7 to 9, the 2017 edition of the Books & Music Festival takes you to the islands with a theme around Creole literature. Thirty meetings, readings, concerts, debates and meetings are on the program for this completely free event, open to all. See you at Villa Le Cercle, we are waiting for you!

  • BOOKS & MUSIC FESTIVAL: interview with Roland Brival

    Award-winning man of letters, confirmed visual artist and musician, Roland Brival has the verb high. Caribbean culture is at the center of his works.
    We will find him during the Books & Music Festival for a literary and musical meeting, accompanied by Bertrand de Robillard, also a writer and musicians.

  • BOOKS & MUSIC FESTIVAL: interview with Hubert Haddad

    Hubert Haddad is one of those rare writers who excel in all fields, essayist, novelist, poet ... His latest novel "Premiers neiges sur Pondichéry" (Ed. Zulma) was selected for the Prix de la Ville de Deauville 2017.

    Find him at the Books & Music festival, alongside the other authors selected for the Prix de la Ville de Deauville, to discover how music inspires their writings and their lives.

  • Books & Music Festival: meeting with Bertrand BELIN

    Bertrand Belin is considered by many to be the new Bashung of the new French song. Whether writing songs or novels, Bertrand Belin plays the language, and sets up an exciting dialogue between the two arts. Find him at Villa le Cercle on Saturday April 9 at 17 p.m.

  • BOOKS & MUSIC FESTIVAL: meeting with Marianne Denicourt

    Theater, travel, production ... For several years, the actress Marianne Denicourt has walked other paths than cinema. Accompanied on the piano by Éric Artz, she will lend her voice to "Paul and Virginie", Bernardin de Saint Pierre's masterpiece. An appointment not to be missed at the Théâtre du Casino Barrière on Sunday April 9 at 14:30 p.m.

  • BOOKS & MUSIC FESTIVAL: TEEN AWARDS

    The winner of the Teenagers' Prize will be announced tomorrow, Friday April 7, at 10 am at the CID, at the opening of the School Day.
    3000 students participated in the Teenagers' Prize this year, organized with the teaching staff and in partnership with the Espace Culturel E. Leclerc de Normandie. In eight years, it has become an unmissable event for an increasing number of Norman middle and high school students!

  • Books & Music: from Tao Ravao to Laure Adler, from Jean-Luc Raharimanana to James Noël

    The Books & Music Festival transported its guests, lovers of literature, words, notes that respond to each other, to embark this Friday for a trip in the Creole culture. The blues musician Tao Ravao and the Malagasy writer Jean-Luc Raharimanana gave pride of place to the musicality so characteristic of the Indian Ocean, before Laure Adler dives into this Creole literature that fascinates her, alongside emblematic authors of its diversity, including Anandi Devi and James Noël.

  • Music, "heroine" of the 2017 City Prize

    The 2017 City Prize was awarded to Frédérique Deghelt for the novel Libertango (Actes Sud). The latter depicts the story of a "looser of fate, denied by his family, and who has only his sensitivity for him", describes François Bott, member of the jury and former editor-in-chief of Le Monde des livres. "The character, the hero of Frédérique Deghelt, will be music. He will be bewitched, penetrated, invaded by it. She will save him, transfigure him, transform him, and mend him with life."

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