For decades, Annie Ernaux has written fearlessly about sex, abortion and illness – laying bare herself and society. Her deeply intimate and political work earned the French writer the Nobel Prize for literature last October. Ernaux spoke to FRANCE 24's Fatimata Wane at the Taormina book festival in Sicily, where she was among the recipients of the Taobuk award.
Also on today's show, we take a tour of Marseille's annual arts festival, offering a vibrant celebration of the port city's diversity.
Plus we bring you a sneak peek of a Paris summer festival that brings dance, circus and other arts to outdoor spaces across the French capital.
