When Maryse Condé left his native island in July 2007 to join France, she gave to the Caribbean Media Library “Bettino Lara” (LAMÉCA) in Basse-Terre her private library she owned in Guadeloupe. The author bequeathed […]
1st edition (from November 25th to 28th, 2008) Theme : “Caribbean literature : Inventory, problems and prospects” Guest of honour : Derek Walcott, poet and playwright from St. Lucia (Nobel Prize for Literature in 1992) […]
The Prix Carbet de la Caraïbe et du Tout-Monde (26th edition) which rewards a literary work from the Caribbean and Americas was awarded on January 22, 2016, at Mémorial ACTe. Gerty Dambury’s essay – a […]
The 16th edition of the Prix Carbet des Lycéens took place on February 29th, 2016 at the High school Droits de l’Homme in Petit-Bourg, Guadeloupe. The high school students from Guadeloupe, Martinique and Guiana gave […]
Because of a stroke a few years ago, the novelist Maryse Condé, known for her dynamism, can no longer move like before. After having worked and traveled a lot all over the world, the novelist […]
On November 26, 2014, Gwoka – “music, song, dance and cultural practices representative of the Guadeloupean identity” – was listed as an intangible cultural heritage of Humanity by UNESCO. Some people feel proud and other […]
In recent years, gwoka has got over obstacles but it was not always this way. Indeed, during slavery, the article 16 of the Edict of Louis XIV, King of France, in March 1685, known as […]
Gwoka is born from the meeting of slaves from different African tribes. When they arrived in the Caribbean, they did not speak the same language, they did not have the same customs but they all […]
From April 15th to 18th, 2015 was held in Guadeloupe the 4th “Congress of Caribbean Writers” in the presence of fifty authors from 14 Caribbean islands and 5 Latin American countries. An opportunity to highlight […]
Évelyne Chaville is a journalist from Guadeloupe and founder of the website, Kariculture.net. After obtaining her Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Foreign Languages, (Gerville-Réache High School in Basse-Terre), she studied Spanish (University of Antilles-Guiana, Pole […]
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