Book Fair Program

The 2024 edition of the Brive Book Fair, from November 8 to 10, is presented in the same format as last year with one certainty: the program promises to be very rich and you will certainly not have time to get bored!

Check out the complete guide to the 2024 Book Fair Read

A word from President François David

“We are creators of meetings, we sow seeds” indicates François David, the President of the event.

“It’s not a contingent of authors with whom we exchange before they leave and there is real work upstream in the classes.”

The Book Fair begins on Thursday for schoolchildren. Around a hundred authors will go to meet them on the Thursday and Friday of the event.

Three meeting places in 2024

Three meeting places are offered this year:

the Space of the Three Provinces (with its 2500 m²) will welcome comics and children's authors. Families will thus be well received. Entertainment is also planned.
La Guierle will welcome authors of general literature.
Several emblematic places in the city center : the Media Library which will host a major exhibition and meetings, the Ouvroir, the auditorium and also the Labenche Museum.

Full program of the Book Fair:

Program for Friday, November 8

At the Alain Gazeau Forum

14:30 p.m.: opening: the big interview with the President of the Book Fair Jérôme Garcin.
17:30 p.m.: Inauguration of the Book Fair (by invitation)

At the Claude Duneton Forum

15 p.m.: The painter’s workshop: Thomas Schlesser, Grégoire Bouillier, Camille de Peretti
16 p.m.: Other worlds: Carole Martinez, Corinne Royer, Alexis Jenni
17 p.m.: Present time: The rule of law in question. With Sébastien Pimont, Vincent Forray, Béatrice Brugère
18 p.m.: Literary rentrée: Isabelle Sorente, Marie Pavlenko, Jérôme Attal

Readers' Forum

14:30 p.m.: Turn the languages. With Monique Sarazy, Jean-Pierre Lacombe, Sandra Pasteur Sallafranque
15:30 p.m.: Monologue of the she-wolf with Gilles Leroy.
16:30 p.m.: Real literature with Victor Castanet and Philippe Pujol
17:30 p.m.: Family Heritage with Julien Bouissoux, Sandrine Roudeix and Thibault de Montaigu
18:30 p.m.: Le Point interviews: All about Stanley Kubrick with Jan Harlan

Jean D'ormesson Space - Theater

14:30 p.m.: On the Amazon River: with Jean-Christophe Rufin of the Académie Française
16 p.m.: The Game of 5 Doors with Fabrice Midal
20:30 p.m.: Musical Reading: Jacaranda with Gaël Faye, Samuel Kamanzi, Jérôme Garcin. Followed by a book signing session with Gaël Faye

Francis Poulenc Auditorium

14:30 p.m.: The invisible woman with Maïtena Biraben
15:30 p.m.: The gold of rivers with Françoise Chandernagor from the Académie Goncourt
17:30 p.m.: Theatrical reading: In the footsteps of Claude Michelet, peasant “writer”

Labenche Museum

15 p.m.: Origins with David Castello-Lopes
16 p.m.: Passionate readings with Sophie Rouvier, Laure Manel and Clarisse Sabard
17 p.m.: Here and elsewhere with Magyd Cherfi, Ismaël Khelifa and Jean-Marie Gourio
20:30 p.m. Rex cinema: Tribute to Marcel Pagnol. Screening of Jofroi by Marcel Pagnol and Eric Stoffel.

At the Workshop / Media Library

14 p.m.: Talents d'Ici: Everything you need to know about publishing with Régis Montels, Esther Merino and Stéphane Barry (Media Library)
15:30 p.m.: Poetic declamations by Brive schoolchildren with Matthias Vincenot (L'Ouvroir)
17 p.m.: Special conversation with Muriel Barbery (Media Library)
19 p.m.: Cours le Court: presentation of the trophies for the poetic short film on Paul Eluard (L'Ouvroir)

Jean-Paul Escande Space / House of the 3 Provinces

14:30 p.m.: Missak, Mélinée & the Manouchian group with Thomas Tcherkézian
16:30 p.m.: Large domain of comics on podcast with Lili Sohn

Agora of the 3 Provinces

10:30 a.m.: Photography in questions: how to decipher news images with David Groison
13:30 p.m.: Citizen debate: Should we control social networks more?
14:30 a.m.: Photography in questions: how to decipher news images with David Groison
16 p.m.: Bobigny 1972, My body, my choice: a historic trial with Marie Bardiaux-Vaïente
17 p.m.: Feature and style of the main guests with Rebecca Dautremer and Emmanuel Lepage
18:30 p.m.: Drawn battle with Laurent Audouin and Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

Program for Saturday November 9

Alain Gazeau Forum

10 a.m.: Le Point interviews: Literature pays! with Antoine Compagnon
11am: So it’s no! With Jérôme Garcin, Hervé Le Tellier, François David and Olivia Gesbert
12 p.m.: The making of the novel with Maylis de Kerangal, Sandrine Colette and Philippe Jaenada
14:30 p.m.: The voice of women with Laure Adler
15:30 p.m.: Houris with Kamel Daoud
16:30 p.m.: Le Point interviews: From story to drawing: an epic! With Rebecca Dautremer and Julien Martinière
17:30 p.m.: two actresses with an open book with Rachida Brakni, Marthe Keller and Jérôme Garcin
18:30 p.m.: So many stories with Olivier Norek, Olivier Guez and Joël Egloff

Claude Duneton Forum

10:30 a.m.: Place de la République: Aurélien Bellanger, Gilles Boyer, Michèle Cotta
11:30 a.m.: Present time. The rule of law, lessons from history with Johann Chapoutot
14 p.m.: Telling mythology today with Guillaume Diana and Michel Serfati
15 p.m.: Why do I write? with Alice Zeniter, Lionel Duroy and Abel Quentin
16 p.m.: Free women with Emma Becker and Delphine Minoui
17 p.m.: Novelists with Guillaume Perilhou and Michel Bonnefoy
18 p.m.: Present time: The winter of freedoms with François Sureau

Readers' Forum

10 a.m.: professional meetings. The second-hand revolution: what impact on creation and the book market?
12 p.m.: At the top of the pile with Johanna Krawczyk, Alexandre Lenot and Jérôme de Verdière
14:30 p.m.: The meaning of the earth with Xavier Patier and Gaspard Koeing
15:30 p.m.: In Praise of Nature with Jean-Michel Valade, Jean Mottet and Daniel Bergez
16:30 p.m.: The taste of words with Sonia Delzongle, Claire Favan, and the winner of the Quai des Orfèvres Prize
18:30 p.m.: The Great Escape with Julien Blanc-Gras, Daniel Fievet and Philibert Humm

Jean D'ormesson Space - theater

11 a.m.: France Inter. The Mask and the Pen: Literature with Rebecca Manzoni, Patricia Martin, Elisabeth Philippe, Jean-Marc Proust and Arnaud Viviant
14:30 p.m.: Under the masks, the feathers with Frédéric Beigbeder, Sophie Avon, Olivia de Lamberterie, Eric Neuhoff and Jérôme Garcin
16 p.m.: Le Point interviews. The governor’s challenge with François Hollande
17:30 p.m.: An almost perfect world with Laurent Gounelle

Francis Poulenc Auditorium

11 a.m.: Writers with Emmanuelle Lambert, Lorraine Fouchet, Christophe Bigot
12 p.m.: Neuromania with Albert Moukheiber
14 p.m.: History with Laurent Laviolette, Mireille Calmel, Camille Pascal
15 p.m.: On the Heart with Philippe Torreton, Philippe Besson and Baptiste Beaulieu
16 p.m.: Elsewhere at home with Douglas Kennedy
17 p.m.: A philosophy of life with Frédéric Lenoir and Etienne Kern
18 p.m.: Crime novels with Franck Thilliez, Michel Bussi, Sonia Foumet-Pérot

Brive Athletic Club

14:30 p.m.: Surpassing yourself with Mathieu Bosredon and Matthieu Lartot

Labenche Museum

10:30 a.m.: The Bastion of Tears with Abdellah Taïa, winner of the French Language Prize
11:30 a.m.: Geopolitics with Emilie Aubry and Marine Jacquemin
14 p.m.: War and resistance with Fabrice Grenard and Laurent Wirth
15 p.m.: telling the story with Valérie Paturaud, Amélie Bourbon Parme and Dominique Maisons
16 p.m.: The Book of Wonders with Eric Giacometti
17 p.m.: Crime fiction and thrillers with Henri Loevenbruck, Olivier Bal and Sébastien Vidal
18 p.m.: Le Point interviews. Towards war? with Sébastien Lecornu.

Media library / Rex Cinema

10am: Local talents. Historical facts highlighted by the story with Jean Darot and Michel Serfati
11:30 a.m.: Special conversation with Emily Blaine
14 p.m.: Local talents. Family stories with Adrien Crespin and Bertrand de Lacombe
15 p.m.: special conversation with Paule-Marie Duquesnoy

L’Ouvroir

10 a.m.: Poem of my life with Guillaume Sire
10:30 a.m.: Poetry recital with Matthias Vincenot and Eric Guilleton
11:30: Poem of my life
14:30 p.m.: Poem of my life. Presentation of the grand poetry prize of the Mallarmé Academy. Meeting with Alain Breton
16:30 p.m.: Is poetry a commitment? Round table with Alain Breton
17:30 p.m.: show. Readings from Le Bleu des fonds by Joyce Mansour with Catherine Belkhodja, Philippe Bouret and Florent Seror
19 p.m.: Opening of the exhibition of faces and hands with Hannah Assouline

Jean-Paul Escande Space

10:30 a.m.: From literature to comics with Emmanuel Lepage, Virginie Ollagnier and Sylvain Bordesoules
14 p.m.: Futuropolis, 50 years of editorial adventures! With Emmanuel Lepage, Edmond Baudoin and Sébastien Gnaedig
18 p.m.: film concert. See Comanche again with Romain Renard and his musician

Agora of the 3 Provinces

10 a.m.: From writing to the stage with Rebecca Dautremer and Guillaume Nail
11:30 a.m.: storytelling session. Zohra, when my word is worth yours with Ludovic Souliman
14 p.m.: In search of imagination with Jérôme Leroy
15 p.m.: Presentation of the "Have you read it?" prize from Crédit Agricole. Followed by a meeting and signing with the two winners Amélie Antoine and Elise Fontenaille
18 p.m.: Staged reading. A collection of memories with Thomas Scotto

Program for Sunday November 10

Alain Gazeau Forum

10 a.m.: At the edge of the world with Claudie Gallay, Yves Harté, Laurent Delmontl
11 a.m.: These characters in me: Véronique Olmi, Cécile Coulon, Guillaume Sire
12:XNUMX p.m.: Present time. The Constitutional Council and the rule of law with Jean-Louis Debré
14 p.m.: Future challenges with Jacques Attali
15 p.m.: A literary conversation with Dany Laferrière and Sophie Fontanel
16 p.m.: with Le Point. the awards season with the winners of the literary rentrée awards

Claude Duneton Forum

10:30 a.m.: Comics morning. Comics and duty of remembrance: resisting in 1944 with Bruno Marivain, Pascal Bresson and Ivan Gros
11:30 a.m.: Comic strip morning. Natural stories with Emmanuel Lepage and Guillaume Lecointre
14:30 p.m.: Reading, writing with Bérénice Pichat, Hemley Boum and Genviève Brisac
15:30 p.m.: Present time. A Gaullist conception of the rule of law with Arnaud Teyssier
16:30 p.m.: My Moirai with Jean-Pierre Dionnet

Readers' Forum

10 a.m.: Famous: Maud Ventura
11 a.m.: New novels with Gwenaëlle Robert, Manon Jouniaux and Franck Pavloff
12 p.m.: Almond Heart with Yasmina Khadra
14 p.m.: Brive City Readers’ Prize: Marion Brunet
15 p.m.: The waltz of souls: Bernard Werber
16 p.m.: Literature, a killer! with Hervé Mons, Claire Destriau and Franck Linol

Jean d'Ormesson Space / Theater

11 a.m.: Journey to infinity with Christophe Galfard followed by a signing session
18 p.m.: show “50 years of political ecstasy” with Jacques Mailhot

Francis Poulenc Auditorium

10:30 a.m.: Telling the truth: Isild Le Besco
11:30 a.m.: East: Marwan Chahine, Maryse Burgot, Dorothée Ollieric.
14:30 p.m.: Up close and personal with Mazarine Pingeot, Fabienne Perineau, Virginia Tangvald
15:30 p.m.: Dark years: Jean-Noël Orengo and Romain Slocombe
16:30 p.m.: Bitter World with Franck Bouysse

Labenche Museum

10 a.m.: Dictation. Tribute to Bernard Pivot.
10:30 a.m.: Hall of Honor of the City Hall, "Jean Charbonnel: itinerary of a Gaullist" with Bernard Lachaise
14 p.m.: Courthouse: Gilbert Thiel and Patricia Tourancheau
15:XNUMX p.m.: Tea for Ghosts with Chris Vuklisevic

Mediatheque

10am: local talents. from self-publishing to traditional publishing. Tiphs and her editor Marion Barri
11 a.m.: Special conversation. Ludivine Labbé

Cinema Rex

14 p.m.: Barry Lundon. Screening of Stanley Kubrick's film
17:15 p.m.: Master Class. All about Barry Lyndon. With Jan Harlan, François Betz. Followed by a book signing by Jan Harlan

L’Ouvroir

10 a.m.: recital and interview. Jean-Pierre Siméon, Anne-Marie Prévot, Robert Birou.
11 a.m.: Poem of my life. Poetic complicity with Jean-Pierre Siméon
11:45 a.m.: Poem of my life with Jérôme Attal and Jean-Guy Soumy
14 p.m.: Young people love poetry. Readings by high school students
15 p.m.: Poetry and reality: Jean-Pierre Siméon and Alain Breton
16 p.m.: theater and poetry

Jean-Paul Escande Space

10:30 a.m.: Mangaka, instructions for use. Yoann Vomière
14:30 p.m.: storytelling show with Pierre Bertrand

Agora of the 3 Provinces

10:30: Can you write “too much”? Susie Morgenstern
14 p.m.: You are here! Marie Lescroart

House of the 3 Provinces

11 a.m., 14:30 p.m. and 15:30 p.m.: Shadow theater with the Ankréation company