A return to normality. It was this idea that had prevailed within the Book teams in Metz when in June 2021, at the end of a 34th edition which had not only postponed its dates from April to June, but also changed location, from the Place de la République to the Esplanade, they had already had to choose the theme for the year 2022. “We all said to ourselves: not even afraid! It will be like before. It will be the return of conviviality, the public and the authors. We wanted a popular, attractive theme to attract an audience that is not necessarily a reader,” says Claire de Guillebon, in charge of programming, adding that after reflection, a question mark was added. “You had to be realistic. Today, in view of the news, we say to ourselves that we have done well. »
Friendly, this 35th edition of the Book Festival in Metz-Literature & Journalism will be so with its return from April 8 to 10, on the Place de la République with its large bookstore, its youth tent, its chat tent and its “food trucks” who had missed so much last year. Above all, this edition should bring together more than 180 guests, including foreign authors, absent since the health crisis. The festival will have the chance to welcome the American novelist Elliot Ackerman, the Portuguese writer Isabela Figueiredo, the Italian author Francesca Melandri and the German Julia Korbik.
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The master of the thriller, Bernard Minier
As in previous years, the festival will be able to count on four guests of honor: the journalist and senior reporter at World Ariane Chemin, invited on Saturday at 11 a.m. for a major interview at Saint-Pierre-aux-Nonnains, the novelist and playwright Laurent Gaudé, present the day before, at 8 p.m. at the Arsenal, for the opening night, the children’s author Anne-Laure Bondoux, who will offer, in particular, a reading drawn with her daughter from her novel “The dawn will be grand”, and, finally, comic book illustrator Anne Simon. Winner in 2004 of the competition for young talents at the Angoulême festival, she will present on Saturday at the Pontiffroy media library an exhibition devoted to her series “Les contes de Marylène”.
In the “Major Interviews” category, the public will have the pleasure of hearing Goncourt Lorrain, Nicolas Mathieu, master thriller Bernard Minier, journalist and writer Sorj Chalandon and historian Georges Vigarello. Finally, around forty round tables will be proposed around the question of fear but also of commitment, female enjoyment and love.
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