{"id":58808,"date":"2022-02-25T17:27:47","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T17:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/dc-francophonie-festival-virtual-literary-encounter-with-gael-octavia\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:39:35","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:39:35","slug":"dc-francophonie-festival-virtual-literary-encounter-with-gael-octavia","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/dc-francophonie-festival-virtual-literary-encounter-with-gael-octavia\/","title":{"rendered":"DC Francophonie Festival &#8211; Virtual Literary Encounter with Ga\u00ebl Octavia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join us Saturday, March 12 for a virtual meeting with\u00a0<strong>Ga\u00ebl Octavia,\u00a0<\/strong>Martinican playwright and novelist. This event is organized in partnership with the Embassy of France within the DC Francophonie Festival. The conversation will be conducted entirely\u00a0<strong>in French.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ga\u00ebl Octavia was born in 1977 \u00e0 Fort-de-France and lives in Paris. Scientist by training, a jack-of-all-trades, she writes (novels, theatre, poetry), paints, and makes short fiction films. Largely inspired by the Martinican society where she grew up, she addresses universal themes such as migration, family, and the female condition in her texts. Her pieces are read and performed in France, the United States, in the Caribbean, in Africa, and in the R\u00e9union. In 2013, she received the ETC Cara\u00efbes\/Beaumarchais prize for the best French-language text for her piece\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.renaud-bray.com\/Livres_Produit.aspx?id=1649502&amp;def=Cette+guerre+que+nous+n%27avons+pas+faite%2COCTAVIA%2C+GA%C3%8BL%2C9782807100039\"><em>Cette guerre que nous n\u2019avons pas faite<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(<em>This War That We Did Not Do)\u00a0<\/em>(Lansman Editeur), created by Luc Cl\u00e9mentin, and, in 2017, special mention from the Wepler Prize Jury for her first novel,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/-\/fr\/Ga%C3%ABl-Octavia-ebook\/dp\/B071ZSGFH9\/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;qid=&amp;sr=\"><em>La fin de Mame Baby<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Gallimard). In 2020, the novel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallimard.fr\/Catalogue\/GALLIMARD\/Continents-Noirs\/La-bonne-histoire-de-Madeleine-Demetrius#\"><em>La bonne histoire de Madeleine D\u00e9m\u00e9trius<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(The Good History of Madeleine D\u00e9m\u00e9trius)\u00a0(Gallimard) and the theatre piece\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/RHAPSODIE-GAEL-OCTAVIA\/dp\/2807102972\"><em>Rhapsodie\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(Rhapsody) (Lansman Editeur), created by the Congolese director Abdon Fortun\u00e9 Koumbha, appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":58806,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[234,213],"app_city_tax":[226],"app_event_type":[241],"class_list":["post-58808","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-all-disciplines","app_discipline-literature","app_city_tax-dc","app_event_type-talk"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>DC Francophonie Festival - Virtual Literary Encounter with Ga\u00ebl Octavia - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/dc-francophonie-festival-virtual-literary-encounter-with-gael-octavia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DC Francophonie Festival - Virtual Literary Encounter with Ga\u00ebl Octavia - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Join us Saturday, March 12 for a virtual meeting with\u00a0Ga\u00ebl Octavia,\u00a0Martinican playwright and novelist. 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