Chers Amis,

Courtesy French Culture  Mon, 04/06/2009 - 07:55

With the upcoming New England tour of award-winning novelist Hubert Haddad, and an exhibit commemorating the life and work of French intellectual Aimé Césaire, April is a particularly noteworthy month in French culture.

Visiting the University of New Hampshire, the Boston French Library, and the College of the Holy Cross, Hubert Haddad will present his novel Palestine, 2008 winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents.

Palestine has been described by the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie as “a French political...


 

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