Friday 26 September 2008, 10:30 am
Reading of poems by Nassuf Djailani, a French poet from Mayotte, and Stephen Gray, a South African Poet, writer and editor.
Nassuf Djailani
Stephen Gray
Nassuf Djailani comes from Mayotte ( Comoros ) and works as a freelance broadcast and newspaper journalist. Nassuf graduated from the "Institut de journalisme de Bordeaux Aquitaine", and currently works as a reporter and cameraman for France 3 Auvergne and RFO Paris.
Since 2006, he has contributed to literary journals in France ( Riveneuve Continents and Ubu Théâtre scène d’Europe in particular) and won the Grand Prix littéraire de l’Océan Indien, as well as the Premier Prix de la poésie 2005, for his poetry collection Roucoulement.
Stephen Gray is a South African hack writer and critic born in Cape Town in 1941. He studied at the University of Cape Town, Cambridge University, England, and the University of Iowa, USA. Until 1992 he was Professor of English at the Rand Afrikaans University in Johannesburg.
Gray is a prolific poet and has published eight novels. Recurrent themes include attitudes to homosexuality and the many rewritings of history in South Africa. He has also written for the theatre and edited collections of work by Athol Fugard and Herman Charles Bosman.
Nassuf Djailani comes from Mayotte ( Comoros ) and works as a freelance broadcast and newspaper journalist. Nassuf graduated from the "Institut de journalisme de Bordeaux Aquitaine", and currently works as a reporter and cameraman for France 3 Auvergne and RFO Paris.
