Amina Richard, you are a documentary professor in Nîmes, but you spent your childhood, adolescence and college years in Nancy. You’re publishing your first novel this year. Why have you waited so long?
I had to be able to concentrate fully on writing, at a time when it was possible, when my children were growing up. But I’ve always wanted to write, I’ve always written. There were fragments of texts, news, things more or less scattered, but I had not decided to write, that is to say, to concentrate on my topic, to carry it out, until ‘a …