Timothee Bordenave, an eminent French author speaks about current literary trends, future of literature, and his literary life
Interviewed by EVA Petropoulou Lianou | Greece
Tell the readers about yourself
I was born on January 1984. Soon after my literary general high school, I studied for a while in London, then obtained a law degree in Paris, France. After this I studied again for a while the Library Sciences. I directed two research libraries! Meanwhile I was writing and painting a lot. Today I am a full time creative. I have published many books of fiction, essay, and poetry. I am also an international artist as a painter.
Please share your thoughts about the future of literature
The future of literature? I know already so few about it’s past, although I am definitely a reader, well this is a difficult question. Then I hope it will be bright, I hope that literacy in the first place, then education too, can strengthen, to let the literary creations improve!
There are two visible trends, from my perspective here in France today that would be first the establishment of the auto fiction as a dominant genre, then the come-back of poetry. These two currents are likely to keep on increasing in the near future I presume. Also, maybe, will we hopefully see a growth of the ‘grey-literature’, as it’s often called: the scientific and research books, directly linked to universities or institutions.
When did you start writing?
Very soon in the course of my life. There’s a sad thing to me here that is that I have lost, or have not here now with me, let’s say, most of my childhood or youth age’s verses, stories, researches… I think that I have lost more than a thousand of pages, this is bitter. Yet, as long as now I am meeting with more success, and I have gained the confidence in some publishing houses, well I will keep on working as much as I can.
The Good and the Bad. Who is winning in nowadays?
There clearly is a battle, a wrestle, between the good and the bad, as much as possibly always it has been a part of humanity, but with a scope, a range, that is new today because maybe the wrestling is intense. I am confident in the victory of good. Eventually! As the sacred texts from all different religions prophesied, as far as I know.
Then we have to be very proactive, very cautious too, and we sure need to prepare for this fight to be long. Endurance, in strength, and with intelligence for a better good!
How many books have you written and where can we find your books?
So, I am working now on number 23 and number 24. There’s also a full translation upon one of my English poetry books, that’s undergoing at present. The count will soon be 25, hopefully. I have 22 books available, right now.
You could find them online, for many of them, still distributed, as hard copies or as electronic books. Online, I have seen this recently, you can also easily find some books of mine in « second hand ». If you want to buy a copy, check for my name in your favorite search engine. They are easy to find really!
The book. E book or Hardcover book. What will be the future?
The two of them will be inseparable one from the other, for a long time, I would say. As a professional librarian myself, I can only advocate for the hard covers copies and also, I can advise people to keep some books, in a collection, at their homes. The physical books are of a great value, when some time passes. This will likely be a trend in the future too, I presume.
A wish for 2025
So, in the year to come 2025? I wish, and I pray as much as I can, for a better peace, along with more understanding, tolerance, intelligence, in the world!
How could we hope or wish otherwise I would say, this is a logical fact that prosperity and happiness, are directly sourced in peace and social stability. There’s also a fact that is true: humanity will always benefit from the exchanges and the benevolent relations between us men and women.
I wish this good might happen!
A phrase from your book Or A book you like
‘Little by little, let a bird nestle…’
French proverb.
Thank you dear Eva, dear Polis Magazino! I love Greece! I wish I could come back, one day soon!
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Eva Lianou Petropoulou is an awarded author and poet from Greece with more than 25 years in the literary field, having published more than 15 books. Her poems are translated in more than 20 languages. She is President of creativity and art of Mil Mentes Por Mexico Association, representing Greece; President of Global UHE Peru, Vice President of Cultural Association China, Mexico. She is also the Ambassador of Peace for The Global Nation newspaper Bangladesh; World Ambassador of International Academy of Ethics India.
