Book Fair programme

The 2024 edition of the Brive Book Fair, from 8 to 10 November, has the same format as last year, but one thing is certain: the programme promises to be very rich, and you certainly won't have time to get bored!

Consult the complete guide to the 2024 Book Fair Lire

A word from the Chairman François David

"We create encounters, we sow seeds", says François David, Chairman of the event.

"It's not just a contingent of authors we talk to before they leave, and there's a lot of upstream work in the classes".

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

Three venues in 2024

Three venues are proposed this year:

the Espace des Trois Provinces (with its 2,500 m²) will be home to comics and children's authors. Families will be well catered for. Other events are also planned.
La Guierle will host authors of general literature.
Several emblematic venues in the town centre: the Médiathèque, which will host a major exhibition and meetings, the Ouvroir, the auditorium and the Musée Labenche.

Full programme of the Book Fair :

Programme for Friday 8 November

At the Forum Alain Gazeau

2.30 pm: Opening: a wide-ranging interview with the President of the Book Fair, Jérôme Garcin.
5.30pm: Opening of the Book Fair (by invitation only)

At the Claude Duneton Forum

3pm: The painter's studio: Thomas Schlesser, Grégoire Bouillier, Camille de Peretti
4pm: D'autres mondes: Carole Martinez, Corinne Royer, Alexis Jenni
5pm: Present time: The rule of law in question. With Sébastien Pimont, Vincent Forray, Béatrice Brugère
6pm: New literary releases: Isabelle Sorente, Marie Pavlenko, Jérôme Attal

Readers' Forum

2.30pm: Turn languages. With Monique Sarazy, Jean-Pierre Lacombe, Sandra Pasteur Sallafranque
3.30pm: Monologue de la louve with Gilles Leroy.
4.30pm: Littératures du réel with Victor Castanet and Philippe Pujol
17h30: Héritage Familial with Julien Bouissoux, Sandrine Roudeix and Thibault de Montaigu
6.30pm: Les entretiens du Point: All about Stanley Kubrick with Jan Harlan

Espace Jean D'ormesson - Theatre

2.30pm: Sur le fleuve Amazone: with Jean-Christophe Rufin from the Académie Française
4pm: Le Jeu des 5 Portes with Fabrice Midal
8.30pm: Musical Reading: Jacaranda with Gaël Faye, Samuel Kamanzi, Jérôme Garcin. Followed by a signing session with Gaël Faye

Francis Poulenc Auditorium

2.30pm: La femme invisible with Maïtena Biraben
3.30pm: L'or des rivières with Françoise Chandernagor from the Académie Goncourt
5.30pm: Dramatised reading: In the footsteps of Claude Michelet, the peasant "writer

Labenche Museum

3pm: The origins with David Castello-Lopes
4pm: Passion readings with Sophie Rouvier, Laure Manel and Clarisse Sabard
5pm: Ici et ailleurs with Magyd Cherfi, Ismaël Khelifa and Jean-Marie Gourio
8.30pm cinéma Rex: Tribute to Marcel Pagnol. Screening of Jofroi by Marcel Pagnol and Eric Stoffel.

At the Ouvroir / Media library

2pm: Talents d'Ici: All about publishing with Régis Montels, Esther Merino and Stéphane Barry (Médiathèque)
3.30pm: Poetic declarations by Brive schoolchildren with Matthias Vincenot (L'Ouvroir)
5pm: Private conversation with Muriel Barbery (Médiathèque)
7pm: Cours le Court: presentation of trophies for short poetic films on Paul Eluard (L'Ouvroir)

Espace Jean-Paul Escande / Maison des 3 Provinces

2.30pm: Missak, Mélinée & the Manouchian group with Thomas Tcherkézian
4.30pm: Grand domaine de la BD au podcast with Lili Sohn

Agora des 3 Provinces

10.30am: La photo en questions: comment décrypter les images d'actualités with David Groison
1.30pm: Citizens' debate: Should social networks be more tightly controlled?
2.30pm: The photo in questions: how to decipher news images with David Groison
4pm: Bobigny 1972, My body, my choice: a historic trial with Marie Bardiaux-Vaïente
5pm: Feature and style of the special guests with Rebecca Dautremer and Emmanuel Lepage
6.30pm: Cartoon battle with Laurent Audouin and Chris Naylor-Ballesteros

Programme for Saturday 9 November

Forum Alain Gazeau

10am: Les entretiens du Point: La littérature, ça paye! with Antoine Compagnon
11am: So that's a no! with Jérôme Garcin, Hervé Le Tellier, François David and Olivia Gesbert
12 noon: La fabrique du roman with Maylis de Kerangal, Sandrine Colette and Philippe Jaenada
2.30pm: La voix des femmes with Laure Adler
3.30pm: Houris with Kamel Daoud
4.30pm: Les entretiens du Point: From story to drawing: an epic! With Rebecca Dautremer and Julien Martinière
17h30: Deux comédiennes à livre ouvert with Rachida Brakni, Marthe Keller and Jérôme Garcin
6.30pm: Autant d'histoires with Olivier Norek, Olivier Guez and Joël Egloff

Forum Claude Duneton

10.30am: Place de la République: Aurélien Bellanger, Gilles Boyer, Michèle Cotta
11.30am: Temps présent. The rule of law, lessons from history with Johann Chapoutot
2pm: Telling mythology today with Guillaume Diana and Michel Serfati
3pm: Why do I write? with Alice Zeniter, Lionel Duroy and Abel Quentin
4pm: Free women with Emma Becker and Delphine Minoui
5pm: Novelists with Guillaume Perilhou and Michel Bonnefoy
6pm: Temps présent: L'hiver des libertés with François Sureau

Readers' Forum

10am: Professional meetings. The second-hand revolution: what impact for creation and the book market?
12pm: At the top of the pile with Johanna Krawczyk, Alexandre Lenot and Jérôme de Verdière
2.30pm: Le sens de la terre with Xavier Patier and Gaspard Koeing
3.30pm: In Praise of Nature with Jean-Michel Valade, Jean Mottet and Daniel Bergez
16h30: Le goût des mots with Sonia Delzongle, Claire Favan, and the winner of the Quai des Orfèvres Prize
6.30pm: L'échappée belle with Julien Blanc-Gras, Daniel Fievet and Philibert Humm

Espace Jean D'ormesson - theatre

11am: France Inter. Le Masque et la Plume: Literature with Rebecca Manzoni, Patricia Martin, Elisabeth Philippe, Jean-Marc Proust and Arnaud Viviant
2.30pm: Sous les masques, les plumes with Frédéric Beigbeder, Sophie Avon, Olivia de Lamberterie, Eric Neuhoff and Jérôme Garcin
4pm: Les entretiens du Point. The governor's challenge with François Hollande
5.30pm: Un monde presque parfait with Laurent Gounelle

Audotorium Francis Poulenc

11am: Writers with Emmanuelle Lambert, Lorraine Fouchet, Christophe Bigot
12pm: Neuromania with Albert Moukheiber
2pm: History with Laurent Laviolette, Mireille Calmel, Camille Pascal
3pm: A l'éndroit du coeur with Philippe Torreton, Philippe Besson and Baptiste Beaulieu
4pm: Ailleurs chez moi with Douglas Kennedy
5pm: A philosophy of life with Frédéric Lenoir and Etienne Kern
6pm: Romans noirs with Franck Thilliez, Michel Bussi and Sonia Foumet-Pérot

Brive Athletic Club

2.30pm: Surpassing yourself with Mathieu Bosredon and Matthieu Lartot

Labenche Museum

10.30am: Le Bastion des larmes with Abdellah Taïa, winner of the French Language Prize
11.30am: Geo-politics with Emilie Aubry and Marine Jacquemin
2pm: War and resistance with Fabrice Grenard and Laurent Wirth
3pm: Telling the story with Valérie Paturaud, Amélie Bourbon Parme and Dominique Maisons
4pm: The book of wonders with Eric Giacometti
5pm: Thrillers and thrillers with Henri Loevenbruck, Olivier Bal and Sébastien Vidal
6pm: Les entretiens du Point. Towards war? with Sébastien Lecornu.

Médiathèque / Cinéma Rex

10am: Talents d'ici. Historical facts brought to light through storytelling with Jean Darot and Michel Serfati
11:30am: Private conversation with Emily Blaine
2pm: Talents from here. Family stories with Adrien Crespin and Bertrand de Lacombe
3pm: Private conversation with Paule-Marie Duquesnoy

L'Ouvroir

10am: Poem of my life with Guillaume Sire
10.30am: Poetry recital with Matthias Vincenot and Eric Guilleton
11:30am: Poem of my life
2.30pm: Poem of my life. Presentation of the Grand Prix de Poésie de l'Académie Mallarmé. Meeting with Alain Breton
4.30pm: Is poetry a commitment? Round table with Alain Breton
5.30pm: performance. Readings of Le Bleu des fonds by Joyce Mansour with Catherine Belkhodja, Philippe Bouret and Florent Seror
7pm: Opening of the Faces and Hands exhibition with Hannah Assouline

Espace Jean-Paul Escande

10.30am: From literature to comics with Emmanuel Lepage, Virginie Ollagnier and Sylvain Bordesoules
2pm: Futuropolis, 50 years of publishing adventures! With Emmanuel Lepage, Edmond Baudoin and Sébastien Gnaedig
6pm: Cine-concert. Revisit Comanche with Romain Renard and his musician

Agora des 3 Provinces

10am: From the written word to the stage with Rebecca Dautremer and Guillaume Nail
11.30am: Storytelling session. Zohra, when my word is worth yours with Ludovic Souliman
2pm: In search of imagination with Jérôme Leroy
3pm: Presentation of the Crédit Agricole "Tu l'as lu? Followed by a meeting and signing session with the two winners, Amélie Antoine and Elise Fontenaille.
6pm: Staged reading. A sum of memories with Thomas Scotto

Programme for Sunday 10 November

Forum Alain Gazeau

10am: Au bord du monde with Claudie Gallay, Yves Harté, Laurent Delmontl
11am: These characters in me: Véronique Olmi, Cécile Coulon, Guillaume Sire
12pm: Temps présent. The Constitutional Council and the rule of law with Jean-Louis Debré
2pm: Challenges for the future with Jacques Attali
3pm: A literary conversation with Dany Laferrière and Sophie Fontanel
4pm: with Le Point. the awards season with the winners of the new literary season awards

Forum Claude Duneton

10.30am: Comics morning. Comics and the duty to remember: resisting in 1944 with Bruno Marivain, Pascal Bresson and Ivan Gros
11.30am: Comics morning. Histoires naturelles with Emmanuel Lepage and Guillaume Lecointre
2.30pm: En lisant, en écrivant with Bérénice Pichat, Hemley Boum and Genviève Brisac
3.30pm: Temps présent. A Gallic conception of the rule of law with Arnaud Teyssier
16h30: Mes Moires with Jean-Pierre Dionnet

Readers' forum

10am: Famous: Maud Ventura
11am: New novels with Gwenaëlle Robert, Manon Jouniaux and Franck Pavloff
12pm: Coeur d'amande with Yasmina Khadra
2pm: Brive Readers' Prize: Marion Brunet
3pm: The waltz of souls: Bernard Werber
4pm: La littérature, une tuerie! with Hervé Mons, Claire Destriau and Franck Linol

Espace Jean d'Ormesson / Theatre

11am: Voyage vers l'infini with Christophe Galfard followed by a book signing
6pm: "50 ans d'extase politique" with Jacques Mailhot

Francis Poulenc Auditorium

10.30 am: Dire vrai: Isild Le Besco
11.30am: Orient: Marwan Chahine, Maryse Burgot, Dorothée Ollieric.
2.30pm: Intimate with Mazarine Pingeot, Fabienne Perineau, Virginia Tangvald
3.30pm: Des années noires: Jean-Noël Orengo and Romain Slocombe
4.30pm: Âpre Monde with Franck Bouysse

Labenche Museum

10am: Dictation. Tribute to Bernard Pivot.
10.30am: Salle d'honneur at the Hôtel de Ville, "Jean Charbonnel: itinéraire d'un Gaulliste" with Bernard Lachaise
2pm: Palais de Justice: Gilbert Thiel and Patricia Tourancheau
3pm: Tea for ghosts with Chris Vuklisevic

Médiathèque

10am: talents d'ici. from self-publishing to traditional publishing. Tiphs and his editor Marion Barri
11am: Conversation particulière. Ludivine Labbé

Cinéma Rex

2pm: Barry Lundon. Screening of Stanley Kubrick's film
5.15pm: Master Class. All about Barry Lyndon. With Jan Harlan, François Betz. Followed by a signing by Jan Harlan

L'Ouvroir

10am: Recital and talk. Jean-Pierre Siméon, Anne-Marie Prévot, Robert Birou.
11am: Poem of my life. Poetic complicities with Jean-Pierre Siméon
11:45am: Poème de ma vie with Jérôme Attal and Jean-Guy Soumy
2pm: Young people love poetry. Readings by high school students
3pm: Poetry and reality: Jean-Pierre Siméon and Alain Breton
4pm: Theatre and poetry

Espace Jean-Paul Escande

10.30am: Mangaka, instructions for use. Yoann Vomière
2.30pm: Storytelling show with Pierre Bertrand

Agora des 3 Provinces

10.30am: Can you write "too much"? Susie Morgenstern
2pm: You are here! Marie Lescroart

Maison des 3 Provinces

11am, 2.30pm and 3.30pm: Shadow theatre with the Ankréation company