2008 Press Releases

Leading French Writer and Government Advisor for UCC Seminar
05.03.2008

Leading French writer, cultural commentator and government advisor on cultural affairs in France, Olivier Poivre d'Arvor, will visit UCC on Friday next, March 7th to conduct a Research Seminar.
The Seminar, hosted by the Department of French, and titled "La Diversite culturelle: A quoi sert-elle?", will run from 11am to 12 noon in Boole V Lecture Theatre.
 
Olivier Poivre d'Arvor has directed the AFAA/ Association Francaise d'Action Artistique (the French Association for the Promotion of the Arts) at the French ministries for Foreign Affairs and the French Ministry for Culture and Communication since 1999, after occupying various cultural posts abroad. He was formerly Director of the Centre Culturel Francais in Alexandria, Director of the Institut Francais in Prague, Director of the Institut Francais, London and Cultural Attaché at the French Embassy, London. He has a passionate interest in the different literatures of the world, and has published over twenty novels. His latest novel, J'ai tant revé de toi, was short-listed for France's most prestigious literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, in 2007. He wrote this in collaboration with his brother, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, one of France's best known broadcasters.
 
On 21 November 2007, the European edition of Time magazine published a dossier titled 'The Death of French Culture'. Olivier Poivre d'Arvor published a refutation of this in a subsequent edition of Time (January 2008):
see http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1699245,00.html

Monsieur Poivre d'Arvor is in Cork as guest of the Alliance Francaise, organisers of the Cork French Film Festival.
Bienvenue a tous/all welcome.

658MMcS
 



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