ETONNANTS VOYAGEURS

Book shows are everywhere or almost everywhere… and in Saint-Malo as elsewhere; However, the one holding open in the privateer city displays its difference. For many years, these "The Voyageurs" have laid a flat bag in the Solidor tower. It was Capt'groin Michel Le Bris that had this bright idea to anchor, here in the city of Jacques Cartier, a sacred traveler that one. It is indeed possible for him to have given the idea of this naming name "The Voyageurs"! Brittany, everyone knows… we will now know, is the first region… after Paris for music publishing; the same applies, admittedly, to publishers of literary and paradigm works for the number of books published every year. The «The Voyageurs» lounge comes every year, as a staging point, to mark the cultural dynamism of the region. This festival has been declared, since its creation, as the rendezvous for all lovers of literature. Over the past 20 years, more than guests have been invited from over countries, all kinds of literature that have come out of their fringants galleons to meet an enlightened amateur audience. This is how we live Jim Harrison, Russel Bank, Hugo Pratt, James Welch, Alvaro Mutis or JMG The Clézio debate with their readers. The real project is that to bring a certain idea of literature abroad, making Saint-Malo the pole of a vast network whose ramifications span the world. And this is how the festival "The Voyageurs" gave birth to other "European Book Meetings" in Bamako, Mali, Haiti… In Saint-Malo during that time, every year, a country, a state, a region of the world is in honour.

Information: 3, rue de Viarmes - 35000 RENNES 02 99 31 05 74. Fax: 02 99 30 78 63. Site: www.etonnants-voyageurs.com - E-mail: [email protected].