Trafika Europe 12 - French Bon-Bons

TE12-01 CLAUDE PONTI: My Valley (illustrated children’s tale excerpt) Claude Ponti (born Lunéville en Lorraine, France, 1948) is one of France’s most celebrated children’s writers and illustrators. His works create captivating fictional universes through wordplay and illustrations of incredible detail and beauty. Ponti found his vocation as a children’s author with the birth of his daughter, Adèle, for whom he created his first picture book, L’Album d’Adèle . He has since won numerous awards, including the 2006 Prix Sorcières Spécial for his lifetime achievement. He has called children’s literature “an intimate soul-to-soul exchange between the reader and the author.” Translated from French by Alyson Waters.

TE12-02 ANNE F. GARRÉTA: Not One Day (novel excerpt)

Anne F. Garréta (born Paris, 1962) Anne F. Garréta is a member of the experimental literary group Oulipo , and lecturer at the University of Rennes II. She also teaches at Duke University as a Research Professor of Literature and Romance Studies. She has a Ph.D. from New York University, 1988, and won France’s prestigious Prix

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