Poster of the French Literature Week in Hanoi (Source: Institut Francais Vietnam) Hanoi (VNS/VNA) - An exhibitiondisplaying posters of book covers opened on November 5 ahead of the FrenchLiterature Week in Hanoi.
Vietnameseversions of the covers at the exhibition include French works which have beenpopular in Vietnam over the past 10 years. The books include Irene Nemirovsky’s FrenchSuite; Françoise Sagan’s HelloSadness and The Elegance of Widows; David Foenkinos’s Delicacy and Romain Gary’s TheLife Before Us.
Theexhibition will also feature information about the writers and the movies beingscreened. The exhibition will run until November 18 at the French CulturalCentre (L’espace).
Theweek proper will begin on November 13 with a talk about cinema in Gary’s works.The participation will be director Do Van Hoang, book editor Dinh Van Tue andfilmmaker Nguyen Hoang Thien Ngan.
Ahighlight of the week will be a meeting with writer Foenkinos on November 15 at5.30pm. Foenkinos is one the most revered and beloved French writers. His novel La delicatesse (Delicacy) was abestseller in France. A film based on the book was released in 2011 with AudreyTautou as the main character.
Worksby Foenkinos are popular in Vietnam including Delicacy, The Erotic Potential of My Wife and Our Separations. His book Charlotte will be published in Vietnam. Charlotte is Foenkinos’s 13th novel which earned the writerthe French literary award Prix Reaudot and High School Students Goncourt Prize.
Vietnamesereaders who are also fans of movies by Foenkinos will get an opportunity towatch Delicacy, Jealous and Les Souvenirs duringthe week at the L’espace, with screenings in French with Vietnamese subtitles.Foenkinos was co-director and screenwriter of Delicacy and Jealous and he wrote the script for Les Souvenir.
Foenkinos will share his success in both literature andfilmmaking at the meeting.
A two-day workshop will be held on November 16 and 17 foryoung filmmakers to learn how to write a screenplay adapted from literaturework. Under director Marcus Manh Cuong Vu, the workshop participants willresearch some French novels which were made into movies.-VNS/VNA
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