Created in 2017 by the Ministry of Culture, the Reading Nights, which are celebrating their 7th edition this year, will be held from January 19 to 22, 2023 with writer and translator Marie Darrieusecq as sponsor. Fear is the general theme chosen by the National Book Center (CNL), which is organizing reading nights for the second consecutive year.
From children’s tales and books to fantastic stories, from dystopian science fiction sagas to police investigations, to contemporary stories and essays that deal with our intimate and collective fears in the face of a troubled and increasingly violent world, the theme fear pervades all literature and invites us to explore all forms of narration, all forms of reading.
The supernatural very present in ultramarine literature
If there is a literature rich in characters and situations where the mystery, the supernatural, the strange and the phantasmagoric, in short, fear are omnipresent, it is the ultramarine literature. Novels, tales and legends in which figure witchcraft, belief in the occult which have their roots in the myths of the past and in traditions, magico-religious rites, esotericism, strange world populate the imagination of overseas and nourish their literature.
Overseas literary productions are full of stories, accounts and images linked to the supernatural and therefore to fear. This means that this theme of fear is familiar overseas and is likely to inspire the overseas organizers of this 7th edition of the Reading Nights. Here is a small selection of the events offered overseas around this 2023 edition of the Nuits de la Lecture with the theme of fear.
Guadeloupe : “Caribbean Tales and Legends”
Immersive reading, a concept born during the confinement period which offers readings at the Silent-helmet. This allows the reader/listener to be immersed in reading aloud (live with sound effects). A concept used with the association “Kan Douvan“, which accompanies the visually impaired. This event is open to all audiences.
Caribbean tales and legends
From January 19 to 22, 2023
Fort Sword Flower
Fouche Road
97180 Sainte-Anne
Guadeloupe
Conditions of participation: on registration
contact@1voix1histoire.com
Exposure : “Monsters in literature and cinema” in Petit-Canal
Monsters have always fascinated our imagination through literature and cinema. This is about discovering or re-discovering certain monsters that make you shiver.
From January 19 to 21, 2023
Guy Fromager media library
Corner of rue Victor Schoelcher and rue Louis Delgrès
97131 Petit-Canal
Guadeloupe
Information: tel: 05 90 22 67 63
mediatheque@villepetitcanal.fr
Guyana: “Confront mermaids” in Kourou
Write and say your sirens: how, from the sirens of Ulysses, work on your fears: young dropouts will write and put their texts into voice.
From January 19 to 20, 2023
On school time
Funnel Theater
Avenue of the Islands
97310 Kourou
Guyana
https:/www.facebook.com/entonnoir.theatrekourou
Martinique: “Not even scared – story time” in Fort-de-France
The AMI association invites the public for a reading and storytelling evening called “Not even scared – story time“
Friday, January 20, 2023 – From 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Morne Desaix Library – Building 730
Admiral d’Estaing Street
97200 Fort de France
Martinique
On registration at 0596 596 39 55 50
library.csmm@gamail.com
The meeting : “Starry readings – Store your fear under the stars“ !
From January 20 to 21, 2023, the media library of the city of Saint-Pierre de la Réunion welcomes the nights of reading with a richer, surprising and unusual program than ever.
In Reunion, the little ones say “not even scared at night“!”Toutout’ gran mèr Kall“!, shout the children to scare her away….. Here the monsters are the children. And to calm the monsters, what better than stories under the stars?
Elodie Lauret and her musician wrap us in stories and music under the stars. A puzzle straight out of the books so that every monster will have their eyes full…
Raphaël Barquisseau media library
Arthur College Street
97410 Saint Pierre
The meeting
Entrance on registration
Contact: Tel: +262 262 32 62 50
pacmedia@saintpierre.re
Mayotte: “Uku”
A day in the academy of Mayotte to be afraid of the night… in all its forms!
If we said to ourselves….. our fears around a read text, a written text, a spoken text. Each workshop, in voluntary establishments, offers its “obscure objects“of fear and arouses speaking, reading and writing.
Workshop
January 20 from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Mayotte Academy
Sarahangue Street
97600 Mamoudzou
https:/motsenmain.wordpress.com/workshops/
To find other events as part of Reading Nights, it’s here
7th edition of Reading Nights: A small selection of events organized overseas