Arthur C. Clarke has died at the age of 90.
The famed writer and visionary died on march, the 19th,at a hospital near his home in Sri Lanka.
Most famous for expanding his short story « The Sentinel » into a novel and screenplay that served as the basis for Stanley’s Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the British-born Clarke authored more than 100 books involving space, science, and science fiction, and he’s often credited with inventing the concept of satellite communications. He first proposed the idea in 1945 with a paper called « Extra-terrestrial Relays. »
Today, the International Astronomical Union refers to a geostationary satellite orbit as The Clarke Orbit.
Having fought post-polio syndrome since the 1960s – a condition that forced him into a wheelchair at times – Clarke checked into the hospital four days ago, and according to his personal secretary, he died after experiencing a cardio-respiratory attack.
The famous festival « Quai du polar », well-known by the community which bring together all the lovers of thrillers. This event assemble international autors, like some talented english writers: John Harvey, Ken Bruen, Mark Billingham, Graham Hurley, Anne Perry, Jonathan Trigell, Bill James and Mo Hayder.
The festival suggests a focus on the British crime novel, with readings, meetings, exhibitions, tv series… and participation of the public in mystery games, « bal noir », etc.
For more information, you just have to consult the official website of « Quai du polar »: you can find the link to the official website in the heading « Bolgroll ».
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The Little Prince father, probably killed by a nazi pilot
Horst Rippert, an 88-year old former pilot of Germany’s Luftwaffe, has said in a forthcoming book that he may have killed French writer and war pilot Antoine de Saint-Exupery in 1944
Saint-Exupery, who achieved worldwide fame with his fairy-tale-like book « The Little Prince, » died in mysterious circumstances when his plane came down near Marseilles while on a reconnaissance mission. His body has never been found.
Extracts of the book « Saint-Exupery: The Final Secret » were published in Le Figaro magazine over the weekend, and Le Figaro quoted Rippert as saying: « It’s me, I shot down Saint-Exupery. »
However, Rippert also said in the article that he could not be certain of the identity of the French pilot whose plane he shot down. He also hoped it was not the French author as he was a big fan of Saint-Exupery’s works.
« I didn’t see the pilot and even so, it would have been impossible for me to know that it was Saint-Exupery. I have hoped ever since that it wasn’t him, » he said.
Saint-Exupery was a pioneering pilot of his era. Following the Nazi German occupation of France in 1940, he moved to New York but then came back and joined the Free French air force. He was 44 years old when he died.
L’oeil était dans la tombe, Christian De Metter
French comic books could be very unhealthy. Christian De Metter shows us a surprising face of a dream world. Sex, murders, alcohol…all is used to take the reader in a black world where a serial killer commits murders after murders.
The hero, who is more like an antihero, leads an ordinary life swatted by the others. The plot is montrously strictness and unconscionable stressful. The investigator meets a young blind boy, who is more « lucid » than normal persons.
But the pictures are very well drawed. The colors, in the majority black and green, are very effective.
In conclusion, pictures and scenario meddle each other giving us 72 pages of pure thrill !
The 28th Paris Book Fair, which takes place from the 14th to the 19th, has been evacuated yesterday on sunday the 16th, at 5 pm.
The Exposition has been closed for about 2 hours, since the policemen were checking trough the « Parc des expositions », in Versailles.
Indeed, someone called the police at the end of the afternoon in order to inform that a bomb was present in the Paris Book Fair. Because of the recent controversing about this event, the police took the notice seriously.
It is true that Palestinian governments and intellectuals declared last week that they were opposed to the representation of Isreal at Paris Book Fair, for the 60th birthday of the promised land.
But the policemen didn’t find anything and the anonymous phone call was probably a fake.
The 28th Book Fair, will run in Paris from the 14th to the 19th of march in Paris. This year, Isreali literature is highlighted: that’s why lots of muslim governments have decided to boycott, this year, Paris Book Show.
Liban, Algéria, Tunisia, Palestinia, Egypt, Jordania, Iran, Yemen, Arabie Saoudite and Yemen protest because they are opposed to Irsraeli government who have censured some literary texts written in arab.
Moreover, they disagree with the choice of French organizers to invit as a special guest Shimon Peres. This last has made an opening of this 28th edition of Paris Book Show last friday (the 14th).
By this way, France pays tribute to Israeli Birthday of creation, 60 years ago.
Mohamed Hafez Yaacoub, a palestinian author, say that France borrow a delicate political position towards Palestine and show to Palestinian people that this country doesn’t care about them.
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