Thursday, 30 March | 7.30 to 9.30 p.m.
Nosbaum Reding Gallery, Rue de la Concorde 60, Brussels
Meeting for professionals: Québec x Luxembourg (by invitation only)
Kultur | lx, in cooperation with the Québec Government Office in Brussels, will hold a meeting for book trade professionals from Quebec and Luxembourg to encourage dialogue and sharing between authors, publishers and book trade and literature professionals from both countries. This friendly professional gathering is supported by the Embassy of Luxembourg in Brussels.
Saturday, 1 April 2023 | 2 to 3 p.m.
Books from Luxembourg, Booth 209 at the Brussels Book Fair
Book signing:
Antoine Pohu, Parfois la nuit se tait, Capybarabooks, Luxembourg, 2023
Antoine Pohu first appeared on the Luxembourg literary scene in 2018, when he won the Prix Laurence awarded by the town council of Bettembourg for his short story Le Masque. In 2019, his manuscript La Quête won first prize in the Young Authors 15-25 category. The novel was published in 2020 by Op der Lay in Luxembourg. Antoine Pohu has also had short stories published in Les Cahiers luxembourgeois, Lëtzebuerger Journal and Tageblatt. Parfois la nuit se tait is his second novel.
Parfois la nuit se tait takes us through the life of a young pianist: from playing his very first chords on the piano to rebelling against his narrow-minded parents, dropping out of school and suffering debilitating panic attacks – a long journey, throughout which he does the best he can to gradually build up a stable life as a musician. He even manages to achieve a certain level of success along the way. Set in Brussels, this tumultuous and chaotic saga comes to an end one evening: our exhausted and disillusioned pianist can no longer perform his concerts because something out there in the audience is upsetting him, something is preventing him from concentrating on his playing. So now what should he do?
Sunday, 2 April | 10 to 10.45 a.m.
Shed1, Brussels Book Show
Meet the authors and reading
Feminist transgressions and perspectives
Authors: Tullio Forgiarini, Nathalie Ronvaux
Moderator: Valerija Berdi (journalist, radio 100.7)
Several years after the #metoo movement, I am Rosa!, a powerful monologue by Nathalie Ronvaux, gives a voice to Lady Rosa, a feminist sculpture by artist Sanja Iveković that provoked a fierce debate in Luxembourg just days after it was unveiled. La Ballade de Lucienne Jourdain by Tullio Forgiarini is a monologue that tells the story of Lucienne, a model wife and submissive woman, who, after having a pig valve transplanted into her heart, starts questioning the established order.
Tullio Forgiarini was born in Luxembourg in 1966 to an Italian father and Luxembourg mother. He writes noir novels, mainly in French. Amok, his first novel in Luxembourgish, won the European Union Prize for Literature in 2013. It has been translated into several languages and was made into a film entitled Baby(a)lone, released in 2015.
Born in 1977 in Luxembourg, Nathalie Ronvaux enjoys experimenting with literary genres, including poetry, drama and prose. She has been involved in multiple literary and cultural events and performances and has won several prizes for her work. In 2017, she was one of ten writers selected for the New Voices from Europe project and the following year, her poetic novel Subridere Un aller simple won the Jury’s Favourite prize at the Luxembourg Book Awards. She joined Kulturfabrik in Esch-sur-Alzette in 2017 and continues to write.
Sunday, 2 April | 11 a.m. to 12 noon
Books from Luxembourg, Booth 209 at the Brussels Book Fair
Book signings
Tullio Forgiarini, La ballade de Lucienne Jourdain, Hydre Éditions, Luxembourg, 2022
Nathalie Ronvaux, Moi, je suis Rosa !, Capybarabooks, Luxembourg, 2022
