Little Brother - Couverture souple

Balde, Ibrahima; Antia, Amets Arzallus

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571399045 ISBN 13 : 9780571399048

Editeur : Faber & Faber, 2025

Synopsis

Little Brother is a modern odyssey, adapted by playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker from an astonishing, award-winning memoir.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Ibrahima Balde is a Guinean auto-mechanic and writer. He is the author, with Amets Arzallus, of the book Miñan, and its protagonist. The book won the Silver Euskadi Award in 2020. It has been translated into ten languages, including into English as Little Brother: An Odyssey to Europe, and was recommended by Pope Francis. Timberlake Wertenbaker's stage adaptation was produced at Jermyn Street Theatre, London, in 2025.

Amets Arzallus Antia is a renowned bertsolari (a Basque improvisational poet), born in 1983. He has worked as an activist for migrants' civil rights, and is the author, with Ibrahima Balde, of Miñan. The book has been translated into ten languages, including into English as Little Brother: An Odyssey to Europe.

Timberlake Wertenbaker's plays include New Anatomies (ICA, London, 1982), Abel's Sister (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs, 1984), The Grace of Mary Traverse (Royal Court), which won the Plays and Players Most Promising Playwright Award in 1985, Our Country's Good (Royal Court and Broadway), winner of the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award in 1988 and the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best New Foreign Play in 1991, The Love of the Nightingale (RSC's Other Place), which won the 1989 Eileen Anderson Central TV Drama Award, Three Birds Alighting on a Field (Royal Court), which won the Susan Smith Blackburn Award, Writers' Guild Award and London Critics' Circle Award in 1992, The Break of Day (Out of Joint production, Royal Court and tour, 1995), After Darwin (Hampstead Theatre, 1998), The Ash Girl (Birmingham Rep, 2000), Credible Witness (Royal Court, 2001), Galileo's Daughter (Theatre Royal, Bath, 2004), Arden City (NT Connections, 2008) and The Line (Arcola Theatre, 2009). She has written the screenplay of The Children, based on the novel by Edith Wharton, and a BBC2 film entitled Do Not Disturb. Translations and adaptations include Marivaux's La Dispute, Jean Anouilh's Leocadia, Maurice Maeterlinck's Pelleas and Melisande for BBC Radio, Ariane Mnouchkine's Mephisto, adapted for the RSC in 1986, Sophocles's The Theban Plays (RSC, 1991), Euripides' Hecuba (ACT, San Francisco, 1995; BBC Radio 3, 2001) and Hippolytus (Riverside Studios, 2009), Eduardo de Filippo's Filumena (Peter Hall Company at the Piccadilly Theatre, 1998), Pirandello's Come tu mi vuoi, Gabriela Preissova's Jenufa (Arcola Theatre, 2008) and Racine's Brittanicus (Wilton's Music Hall, 2011).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber & Faber
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571399045
• ISBN 13: 9780571399048
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 96
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Faber & Faber; https://www.faber.co.uk/; ; The Bindery; London; EC1N 8HN; Royaume-Uni
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