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#Nina Bouraoui
les-toupies-h · 1 year
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« L'amour et l'écriture ont la même origine charnelle, ils absorbent les mêmes forces, ils viennent du même brasier. L'écriture est un acte presque sexuel, le plus intime qui soit. » Nina Bouraoui
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nemosisworld · 1 month
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J'ai souvent pensé que ma capacité à souffrir était égale à ma capacité à aimer.
Que chacune de mes larmes répondait à chacun de mes rires.
Nina Bouraoui
Ph.  Anny Duperey : Isabelle Adjani
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coolvieilledentelle · 4 months
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J'ai souvent pensé que ma capacité à souffrir était égale à ma capacité à aimer. Que chacune de mes larmes répondait à chacun de mes rires. Que chacun de mes tourments répondait à chacune de mes convictions. Que chacune de mes craintes répondait à chacune de mes certitudes. Que ma peine glorifiait ma joie. Que ma défaite honorait ma victoire passée. (...) En perdant, j'ai appris à reconquérir, non l'autre, un autre, mais toutes les parts de mon coeur pulvérisé. Nina Bouraoui- (Beaux Rivages)
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Un jour...une histoire 📚
Coup de coeur cette semaine pour « Grand seigneur » de Nina Bouraoui, un roman bouleversant dans lequel l'auteure rend un magnifique hommage à son père.
L'écriture peut-elle être un exutoire face à la douleur de la perte d'un proche ? Pour l'écrivaine, ce fut certainement une nécessité et une réparation. Dans son nouveau roman, elle fait vibrer comme jamais la corde de l'intime en évoquant la fin de vie de son père entré dans la maison médicale Jeanne-Garnier, à Paris, en mai 2022. Avec sa mère, sa sœur et ses neveux, ils se relaient au chevet de cet ancien haut fonctionnaire algérien, qui voyageait dans le monde entier. Elle raconte la mort qu'elle sent dans les couloirs de cette unité de soins palliatifs, avec aussi ce qu'elle implique, notamment l'adieu à sa jeunesse insouciante. Elle se remémore ses années de petite fille à Alger, ses promenades main dans la main dans le quartier d'Hydra avec ce grand homme qu'elle admire tant, et le remercie pour ce qu'il lui a donné. Il se battit pour épouser une jeune Bretonne, blonde aux yeux bleus, et, plus tard, accepta l'homosexualité de sa fille. Il était fier qu'elle se lance dans l'écriture et publie des livres. Avec tendresse, pudeur et sensibilité, Nina Bouraoui rend un magnifique hommage à son Grand Seigneur, son héros au sourire si doux. Lumineux et bouleversant.
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lisaalmeida · 1 year
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L'amour véritable est rare et discret. Quand il survient il est aisé à reconnaître. Il rend grand alors que l'on se croyait petit. Il rend brave alors que l'on se croyait lâche. Il ne demande rien et n'attend rien en retour. Il se déploie en silence, avec lenteur. Il a tout son temps, car le temps est son allié. Cet amour est une science. Elle est ardue, compliquée, mais elle n'est pas impossible.
- Nina Bouraoui, Beaux Rivages
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canesenzafissadimora · 9 months
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Mio padre mi diceva che non
conosci mai davvero le
persone che puoi amarle per
tutta la vita ed essere ancora
sorpreso.
Nina Bouraoui
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Mémoires algériennes avec Rachida Brakni et Nina Bouraoui
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God.
Thinking about the time in university when I had to choose a French memoir to write an essay on and so I chose Garçon manqué by Nina Bouraoui because it was short. And I didnt really feel like I understood anything but I had an Essay To Write, Goddammit, and Nina Boraoui must be some kind of God-tier writer because I had never heard of nonbinary people but I sure did end up reinventing nonbinarism from first principles by brute force essay-ing her book.
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morebedsidebooks · 9 months
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10 Must Read Titles by Women in Translation
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In honour of Women in Translation Month here are some of the impressive women writers from around the globe I’ve read.
 All Men Want to Know by Nina Bouraoui, translated from the French by Aneesa Abbas Higgins
Across countries, cultures, and identity the lesbian French-Algerian author delivers a vivid autofiction novel moving from child to adult.
Another Love by Erzsébet Galgóczi, translated from the Hungarian by Ines Rieder and Felice Newman
This political historical crime novella about the death of a journalist is famously the basis for a lesbian cult film in the 1980s.
 Cinnamon by Samar Yazbek, translated from the Arabic by Emily Danby
Power and trauma where one fumbles around trying to grasp what control or dominance, or the illusion of such, can be had and how this could influence people is center stage in this story of an affluent but stifled Damascus wife sexually grooming her maid.
 Girls Lost by Jessica Schiefauer, translated from the Swedish by Saskia Vogel
A dark YA fairytale-like coming-of-age novel utilizing gender transformation to say something about sexism, identity, and perception.
Jawbone by Mónica Ojeda, translated from the Spanish by Sarah Booker
Literary fiction segues itself into thrilling horror in this challenging novel trying to say something among anxiety and violence about purity, mothers and daughters, teachers and students, best friends and maybe more.
Last Night in Nuuk by Niviaq Korneliussen, translated from the Danish version (from Greenlandic by the author) by Anna Halager
A contemporary debut novel with a cast of queer twenty-somethings set during spring in Greenland’s capital city and a night that changes so much.
 Paradise Rot by Jenny Hval, translated from the Norwegian by Marjam Idriss
A bizarre and sensual eco-gothic debut novel featuring a foreign college student adapting to the immersion of a new surroundings, culture, diet, and language with a suffusing ennui and a (queer) sexual consciousness.  
Sparkling Rain, translated from the Japanese by Ronni Alexander, Kimberly Hughes, Claire Maree, Barbara Summerhawk and Laurie Walters
An important anthology of Japanese fiction around women who love women covering some history and selections of works from 1912 into the new millennium.
To the Warm Horizon by Choi Jin-Young, translated from the Korean by Soje
This post-apocalyptic novel imagining the aftermath of an immensely deadly pandemic is filled with what people lose and leave, while trying to show something that humans can find and still hold onto. In this case love, including a love between two women.
The Wandering by Intan Paramaditha, translated from the Indonesian by Stephen J. Epstein
A fantasy travel novel unfolding in untraditional fashion by the device of readers choosing their own route, but at the same time paths countless others have taken before them. 
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baberoe-archive · 7 months
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Hi, idk if you still want ask or not, but I love your writing <333 What's your inspiration? Your fav author or books?
hiiii thank you so much!!!!!!! u r too kind!!!!!!!! <3<3<3
i've been thinking about this all day to try to give a good answer but i sort of realized my inspiration could probably be best described by 2019 tendercore era tumblr lol. if u were not there for that truly magical experience of posting, it was a lot of crush by richard siken and various mary oliver poems and such classics as the goldfinch by donna tartt and movies like portrait of a lady on fire dir celine sciamma and my own private idaho dir gus van sant. and a lot of it has become very tumblr cliche by now, but they are very formative to me and are still some of my favorites and they r just good they hold up i think. also -- just remembered he was in this group -- but ocean vuong's first poetry collection was one of the first i read and it was just like. so amazing. i also really liked his novel on earth we're briefly gorgeous.
i think a lot about james baldwin and frank o'hara in terms of bringing the poetic to the everyday (giovanni's room is one of my favorites and "for grace after a party" is one of thee poems of all time for me. and "mayakovsky" and "on rachmaninoff's birthday" he has so many hits). recently i've been trying to get a little bit more experimental ish. i recently read and really liked garçon manqué by nina bouraoui (which wikipedia tells me is translated as tomboy).
all time favorite writer is federico garcía lorca. i don't really think i've got much of him in my writing but i'll always namedrop him. hes my weird dead gay historical figure friend forever and ever <3
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carraways-son · 1 year
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Mercredi
En prenant de l’âge, j’ai l’impression que l’hiver n’en finit plus. Les jours s’allongent pourtant et, perchées au-dessus de la Garonne, les mouettes rieuses ont même commencé à changer de plumage pour retrouver leur masque noir des beaux jours. Je rêve d’été sous le soleil algérois qui chauffe les pages de Satisfaction, le roman de Nina Bouraoui dans lequel je suis actuellement plongé. J’ai besoin de lumières cruelles et de douces brûlures, vite.
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jeanchrisosme · 2 years
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On ne connaît jamais vraiment les gens. On peut les aimer pendant toute une vie et être encore surpris.
Nina Bouraoui- (La vie heureuse)
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nemosisworld · 1 year
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L'amour est imprévisible. Il survient quand on ne l'espère plus, disparaît alors qu'on le jugeait acquis.
Il est sans prise et sans durée, sinon celle que l'on veut bien lui prêter.
Nina Bouraoui
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L'amour n'est ni un travail ni un édifice, et s'il l'est, il a ses fissures. On ne retient personne dans un château clos. La liberté que l'on donne à l'autre vaut toutes les promesses. Nina Bouraoui- (Beaux rivages)
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In the middle of reading For Bread Alone (finally) and was wondering if I should read a Nina Bouraoui next 🤔🤔
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ya-world-challenge · 2 years
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YA Books about 🇩🇿 Algeria
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Master book list for the YA World Challenge for: 🇩🇿 Algeria
YA The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy, Mackenzi Lee 🛩️⌛🌈 (Algerian secondary character)
NA / Coming-of-Age Some Dream for Fools, Faïza Guène 💚🛩️ Men Don't Cry, Faïza Guène 💚🛩️ A Bookshop in Algiers, Kaouther Adimi 💚 Algeria is Beautiful Like America, Olivia Burton (GN)🏖️ Two Crosses, Elizabeth Musser 🏖️ I Die by This Country, Fawzia Zouari 💚
Memoir Tomboy, Nina Bouraoui 💚⌛🌈 All Men Want to Know, Nina Bouraoui 💚🌈 Sirocco: A French Girl Comes of Age in War-Torn Algeria ⌛ Algerian Childhood, Anthology 💚
Adult Authors to consider Yasmina Kadre Faïza Guène Aziz Chouaki Assia Djebar Boualem Sansal
💚 Native Author 🛩️ Immigrant or diaspora 🏖️ non-native characters in or about the country (ex. vacation/adventure) ⌛ Historical 🦋 Fantasy 🌈 LGBT
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