Saturday, October 25, 2025 From 10:00 AM To 3:00 PM Add to Calendar 2025-10-25 10:00:00 2025-10-25 15:00:00 French Voices at the Boston Book Festival This exciting day of author talks offers a unique chance for readers, literature enthusiasts, and Francophiles to engage directly with some of today’s most celebrated French voices. The French Library, 53 Marlborough St, Boston, Massachusetts, United States America/New_York
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Featured Authors
In conversation with Marie N’Diaye
Marie N’Diaye is a celebrated French novelist, playwright, and screenwriter whose career spans nearly four decades, having first been published at 18. She received the Prix Goncourt in 2009 for Three Strong Women, and her plays are included in the repertoire of the Comédie-Française. Her most recent novel in English, Vengeance Is Mine (2023), was named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, TIME and The Washington Post.
In addition to her literary achievements, NDiaye co-wrote the screenplay for Claire Denis’s acclaimed film White Material (2009) and contributed to the award-winning Saint Omer (2022). She will be interviewed by Odile Cazenave, Professor of French in Romance Studies & African Studies at Boston University.
Talk: 10:00 – 11:00 AM | Book Signing: Following the talk
How Minority Rights Shape Us All
Bruno Perreau, with Théo Mantion
Bruno Perreau is the Cynthia L. Reed Professor of French Studies at MIT and a Faculty Affiliate at Harvard’s Center for European Studies. He has written widely on politics, culture, and social change in both France and the U.S. Bruno Perreau will discuss his work with Ph.D. candidate in French literature at Harvard University Théo Mantion.
Talk: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM | Book Signing Following the talk
Miguel Bonnefoy is a French and Venezuelan novelist, whose rich storytelling delves into a range of relevant themes from identity to family and collective memory. He was the recipient of the Prix de Jeune Écrivain in 2013. His acclaimed novel Heritage was short-listed for several prestigious literary honors, including the Grand Prix de l’Académie française, the Prix Femina, and the Prix Goncourt. His latest novel, The Dream of the Jaguar, will be released in the US in December 2025.
The author will be interviewed by Benoit Landon, literary journalist and librarian at the French Library
Talk : 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Book Signing: Following the talk
This event is co-presented with Villa Albertine Boston and the Boston Book Festival.
The French Library is proud to continue its longstanding collaboration with Villa Albertine Boston, alongside the Boston Book Festival.
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A dialogue of ideas with Pierre-Laurent Boulanger
Reflect on solitude and freedom in a guided dialogue that brings together Thoreau’s Walden and Tesson’s Consolations of the Forest; where literature, philosophy, and conversation meet.
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Ciné Club Series: Nouvelle Vague by Richard Linklater
Co-presented with the Coolidge Corner Theater
Please join us for a special screening of Richard Linklater’s Nouvelle Vague, followed by a conversation with Ericka Knudson and a signing of her new book Nouvelles Femmes: Modern Women of the French New Wave and Their Enduring Contribution to Cinema.
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