Dialogue between Elitza Gueorguieva and Uruguayan writer L. Etchart

Cycle "Paroles de créatrices"

Dialogue between Elitza Gueorguieva and Uruguayan writer L. Etchart

Session moderated by Marielle Anselmo, Associate Professor (PLIDAM/Inalco)

This meeting is the fifth and final in a cycle organized as part of the writing residency of French-Bulgarian writer Elitza Gueorguieva at Inalco. The latter leads two writing workshops for Licence and Master students and takes part in a series of meetings with women writers who share with her the fact of being translingual, i.e. of having switched from their mother tongue to French, the language of writing.

In Tupamadre (Ed. des Terrasses, 2023), the narrator, daughter of Tupamaros, Uruguayan guerrillas advocating direct action in the 60s and 70s, recomposes in snippets and fragments a heroic biography, between clandestinity and mourning, in a decomposed French whose spelling, in a cheerful disorder, often borrows from Spanish.

L. Etchart learned in Montevideo a French language handed down by her family, political refugees in France in the 1970s. She writes as she learned, with violence and treachery to the French language. Her poetry has no rules, no accents or apostrophes. Tupamadre is her first book.

Elitza Gueorguieva was born in Sofia, Bulgaria. She has published two novels with Verticales: Les cosmonautes ne font que passer (2016) and Odyssée des filles de l'Est. She is also the author of several documentary films, includingEach Wall is a Door(2017) and Our Silent Place(2021). She creates performances for various scenic venues.

This writing residency is carried out as part of the Ile-de-France Region's residency program. It is organized by the Master de Traduction Littéraire, with the support of the PLIDAM, CERLOM and CREE teams, and the collaboration of UMR THALIM.

Contact: marielle.anselmo@inalco.fr