french
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Sunday book pick: The sex lives of Iranian housewives in Marjane Satrapi’s ‘Embroideries’
Sayari Debnath
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‘The Inseparables’: Simone de Beauvoir’s novella speaks of the crushing weight borne by women
Kshipra Hada
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‘Nocturne Pondicherry’: In these translated short stories, night is an enabler and invader
Rahul Vishnoi
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Sunday book pick: The horrifying effects of the failure of language in ‘A Cage in Search of a Bird’
Sayari Debnath
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Sunday book pick: In ‘Thirst’, Jesus is god’s son, a miracle worker, and a man who was killed
Sayari Debnath
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Hindi nonfiction: An excerpt from ‘The Second Sex’ by Simone De Beauvoir, translated by Monica Singh
Simone De Beauvoir Monica Singh
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Translated short fiction: Quick journeys from mundane situations to the darkness within people
Ari Gautier Roopam Singh
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An Indian author listens to literary ghosts in Paris as the French edition of her book is released
Ruchira Gupta
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Pankaj Kumar Chatterjee’s Bengali translation of ‘Staliner Divan’ wins Romain Rolland Book Prize
Scroll Staff
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‘Essential to ignore political correctness when writing’: French-language writer Shumona Sinha
Sayari Debnath
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Bengali to Kannada, Sanskrit to French: How I became multilingual
Prithwiraj Mukherjee
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‘It’s a cultural encyclopaedia of modern India’: Annie Montaut, French translator of ‘Ret Samadhi’
Annie Montaut
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Locked down, born again: Covid-19 and the search for Indian Francophone literature
Ari Gautier
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A new book says the KGB may have killed Albert Camus. His novel ‘The Stranger’ lives on
Yuvraj Nathani
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Annie Ernaux: At 78, one of France’s great writers is finally wowing English language readers
Elise Hugueny-Léger, The Conversation
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Five books on work by French authors that you can read on your commute – to work
Amy Wigelsworth, The Conversation
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A brief journey through India as seen by the French poetic imagination of the 19th century
Saudamini Deo Philippe Charlier
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The leading academy for French is up in arms against a movement to make the language less sexist
Olivia Walsh, The Conversation Thomas Godard, The Conversation
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How the illegitimate heir became a ‘bastard’ in medieval Europe
Sara McDougall
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Ali Ben Sou Alle: Was this 19th century Frenchman the Pied Piper of Mysore?
Paul Wehage