2024
Originally conceived to celebrate the winners of the Prix du Jeune Écrivain (short story competition), the Young Writers’ Week is now a literary week open to all, dedicated to young writers and the discovery of emerging Francophone fiction. The Young...
2024
The Canadian Cultural Centre invites you to a conversation on the stories and voices of two Indigenous women: a crossover between Innu author Carole Labarre and Cree Métis author and painter Virginia Pésémapeo Bordeleau. Carole Labarre draws her inspiration from...
2024
From March 14 to 17, 2024, Cosmopolis and the Cinématographe in Nantes will be hosting the Festival “Paroles autochtones. History and Literature of Contemporary Canada“. The festival is devoted to the history, literature and cinema of Canada’s Francophone Indigenous communities,...
2023
Following the international success of Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel, Emily St John Mandel is back with the ground-breaking publication in France of her new novel Sea of Tranquillity, published by éditions Rivages. The author revisits the classic theme...
2023
Meet Quebec author Marie-Anne Legault to discuss her second novel, Le Phénix, published in France by Québec Amérique. Carried along by her sumptuous writing, this odyssey of captivating suspense takes us as far away as Babylon, to conquer the mysteries...
2023
Mémoire d’encrier is celebrating its 20th anniversary! 20 years of bringing together voices from every continent. Writer and publisher Rodney Saint-Eloi and author Philippe Yong will be in conversation at the Canadian Cultural Centre to mark the occasion. The discussion...
2023
Michel Jean returns to the Canadian Cultural Centre to present his latest novel, Tiohtià:ke [Montréal], published in the Voix Autochtones collection by Éditions du Seuil. A sensitive novel with deeply human characters who, with empathy and introspection, plunge us into...
2023
Meet Catherine Ocelot and Boum, finalists for the 24th Bédélys Québec awards at the Montreal Comics Festival. This award recognizes the best comic book published in Quebec. The two comic artists will be presenting their most recent work at the...
2023
After the success of Encabanée (Le Mot et le reste, 2021; Folio, 2022) and Sauvagines (Stock, 2022), Quebec writer Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba publishes her new book Bivouac (Stock, 2023) and returns to her sensitive marginalized, and above all, free characters. She writes...
2023
The Canadian Cultural Centre is participating at the 11th Nuit de la littérature with Innu-born Indigenous author Natasha Kanapé Fontaine. She will be presenting her new novel Nauetakuan, to be published in France by Dépaysage. Organised by the le Forum...
2023
The Canadian Cultural Centre, in partnership with Québec Édition, is delighted to partner with the Festival du Livre de Paris, which will take place from April 21 to 23 in various locations in Paris. On Friday April 21 at 8...
2023
The Quais du polar festival has become a must-attend event for crime fiction lovers in France. Now well established in the French and European cultural landscape, it is recognised both by professionals and by the general public, who are turning...
2023
On Thursday, March 9, the Canadian Cultural Centre is proud to welcome Éditions du Seuil for the launch of their new “Indigenous Voices” collection in France. It highlights the renewal and singularity of Indigenous authors. For the occasion, Le Seuil...
2023
The singular and subversive Quebec artist Julie Doucet, winner of the Grand Prix at the Angoulême International Comics Festival 2022, is stopping by the Canadian Cultural Centre for a unique encounter. Feminist figurehead of alternative comics, she will be presenting...
2023
Meet Julie Delporte and Éloïse Marseille, two of Montreal’s leading comic book authors published by Quebec publisher Pow Pow. Come hear these women whose intimate works echo each other in depictions of sexuality, consent, feminism and gender. Two strong and...
2023
The Canadian Cultural Centre invites you to an exceptional encounter with Quebec writer Dominique Fortier. After the success of Paper Houses, winner of the prestigious Prix Renaudot Essai in 2020, the author returns to the world of poetess Emily Dickinson...
2022
The Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse en Seine-Saint-Denis welcomes a delegation of Canadian artists to Montreuil and to bookstores throughout France as part of its 38th edition. Encounters, readings and debates have been organised around the theme...
2022
On Monday, November 7 at 8:00 p.m., the Canadian Cultural Centre invites you to a literary conversation with Innu author Michel Jean, on the occasion of the publication in France of his novel, Atuk (Éditions Dépaysage, 2022). In the wake...
2022
“An hour with…” is a literary conversation at the Institut du monde arabe in Paris, to discover and listen to Arabic and Francophone authors from the Arab world, or speaking about it. On October 14 at 6.30 pm, come to...
2022
From September 21 to October 1st, artists from all over the world will meet for Les Zébrures d’automne des Francophonies – Des écritures à la scène in Limoges for 10 days of theatre, dance, music, conversations and debates, to celebrate...
2022
This 10th edition of the AMERICA Festival celebrates the “Voices of America” and welcomes a choir composed of about sixty voices that tell the reality of America and the world today. Without forgetting the dramas of the past, the fault...
2022
On September 26 at 8pm, book your seats for our first literary conversation of the season, with Sheila Watt-Cloutier, one of the world’s most renowned environmental and human rights advocates. Sheila Watt-Cloutier has devoted her life to protecting what is...
2022
Multi-disciplinary in essence, dedicated to literature, cinema, photography and sound creation, the Nature Nomade festival is an invitation to travel and meet with writers, directors, photographers, artists and scientists, whose varied work sheds light on the relationship between human beings...
2022
This first edition of the “Rapailler” festival, imagined and organized by the Monte en l’air bookshop in Paris 20th, presents a series of conversations and lectures bringing together Quebec authors for a week celebrating the diversity of Quebec literature. Quebec’s...
2022
On May 17 at 8pm, five actors will perform Hope Town by Quebec playwright Pascale Renaud-Hébert at the Canadian Cultural Centre, in partnership with Les francophonies – Des écritures à la scène! The theatrical reading will be followed by an...
2022
The Canadian Cultural Centre, in partnership with Québec Édition, is delighted to join the Paris Book Festival, which will take place from April 22 to 24 in various venues across the city. Join us at the Cultural Centre to meet...
2022
The initiative “Artists in solidarity with Ukraine” will bring together foreign cultural institutes in Paris, including the Ukrainian Cultural Centre, the EUNIC network of European cultural institutes, the US Embassy and the Canadian Cultural Centre, with the Villa Gillet, for...
2022
How do a scriptwriter and comic artist duo approach a historical event through comics? While Francis Desharnais and Alexandre Fontaine Rousseau chose satire and humour to talk about the conquest of the cosmos, Anne-Marie Saint-Cerny and Christian Quesnel chose journalistic...
2022
The 49th edition of the International Comics Festival of Angoulême will be held this year from March 17 to 20! Visit our booth to meet a dozen comic book authors and illustrators from across Canada! The artists making the transatlantic...
2022
For International Women’s Day on March 8, the Canadian Cultural Centre invites you to a literary conversation with Canadian author Martine Delvaux to mark the launch in France of Le monde est à toi and Pompières et pyromanes: two books...
2022
Each year in February, Canada celebrates Black History Month, to highlight and honour the contributions of Black people to the history of the country. On February 22 at 8pm, the Canadian Cultural Centre invites you to a special evening on...
2021
// CANCELLED // The Canadian Cultural Centre invites you to the Librairie du Québec for a literary discussion with Quebec author Christian Guay-Poliquin for the release of his new novel Les ombres filantes (La Peuplade). In the forest, a lone...