Author: francoBooks

If you are new to Francophone literature, you will encounter the word Négritude very quickly. It appears in the biography of almost every major French-speaking African…

Not sure where to begin? Here are ten Francophone novels that have been translated into English — spanning France, Africa, the Caribbean and Québec — chosen…

So Long a Letter is one of those novels that arrives quietly and stays with you permanently. Written as a single extended letter, it is brief…

When Les Soleils des Indépendances was first submitted to French publishers in the 1960s, it was rejected on both sides of the Atlantic — in France…