Laila Soleimani will chair the book fair

As time passes, information is being extracted about the 2024 edition of the Rendez-vous de l’histoire, dedicated from October 9 to 13 to “The City”.

The book fair, one of the highlights of the event, will be chaired by Leila Soleimani this year. Author after author! In fact, last year, it was the successful novelist Pierre Lemaître who carried out the task with great simplicity.

Leila Slimani, winner of the 2016 Goncourt Prize Soft songHer second novel, she made a name for herself with her first work, In Ghoul Gardentwo years ago, became famous for his writing and its subject (Female Sexual Addiction).

Leila Slimani was born in 1981 in Morocco, and completed her higher education in France. She tried acting at Cours Florent, then became a journalist at Jeune Afrique from 2008 to 2012, before turning to writing where she discovered her dual Moroccan and French citizenship.

It represents the French President on the Permanent Council of the International Organization of La Francophonie.

In 2020 published war war war, The first part of a trilogy entitled The land of others. The writer is currently working on the final volume of this book.