The Institut Français Presents
Lire en Fête
19-20 October 2001
Since its creation 13 years ago, France's celebration of books and reading, Lire en Fête has become immensely popular and is now celebrated in French cultural centres worldwide.
This year, the Médiathèque joins with the Ciné Lumière in offering you several events in which you can share the pleasures of reading and being read to.
The celebration gets off to a great start on Friday with the visit of the two French cartoonists Dupuy and Berberian who received the Prize for best comic album at the 1999 Angoulême Festival. They will present their famous character Monsieur Jean, a forty-something Parisian writer who was created in their own image (9pm in the Médiathèque after the film Par Coeur featuring Fabrice Luchini).
Lire en Fête then continues on Saturday with John Willett making a personal appearance at the Institut Français (2pm to 4pm). The noted writer and literary critic, renowned for his translations of Brecht, will present the illustrations he made for a text called Forelegs and Hindlegs written by his father-in-law, Geoffrey Sainsbury, also a translator and a philosopher. Altough unpublished in the UK, this highly original work has now been published in France by MeMo under the title Patavant et Patarrière.
Lire en Fête finishes on a convivial note at Le Bistrot of the Institut where all readers are invited to share their passion for their favourite authors, illustrators and characters, and to read an extract of a book (4pm to 6pm).
For further information: 020 7838 2154
Lire en Fête
19-20 October
Institut Français
17 Queensberry Place
London SW7 2DT
Tube: South Kensington