10-12 OCTOBER 2025
Voix de femmes, voix de France
17:00
Country of Honour: PRESENTATION / DISCUSSION
with Eva Poliviou
DESCRIPTION (FOR THE PROGRAM)
Which voices make up contemporary French literature? What is the stigma of the female experience, when it is transformed into narrative?
From the experiential prose of Annie Ernaux to the theoretical interventions of Julia Kristeva, and from the literature for teenagers of Marie-Aude Murail to the autobiography and essay of Véronique Ovaldé, Claire Berest and Claire Marin, women in France write with intensity, boldness and political awareness.
Maria Margaroni, Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Theory in the Department of English Studies at the University of Cyprus, poet and short story writer Nora Nadjarian, and literary translator Despina Pyrketti discuss the work and influence of these voices in and outside France with historian and writer Eva Polyviou. The discussion focuses on the importance of women's writing today, as well as issues of identity, language, and translation.
The event is open to the public and is accompanied by visual and editorial material.
BRIEF CV
Eva Polyviou was born in Nicosia, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She studied classical literature and history of the ancient world, first in Cyprus and then in London and Paris. She works as a professor at the English School of Nicosia and is also active in the field of literature and culture, mainly through the Center for Literary and Cultural Studies (KELOPOS), of which she is a founding member and president. Her studies and articles have been published in international scientific journals and conference proceedings, while she has also published short stories in literary magazines in Cyprus and Greece.