Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad (founded in 1982) will celebrate its 30th birth anniversary in 2012-2

Alliance Française d’Ahmedabad (founded in 1982) will celebrate its 30th birth anniversary in 2012 by organising a series of lectures, talks and discussion on ‘the impact of French literature on Gujarati writers’ throughout the year 2012. Every month an eminent Gujarati writer or scholar will be invited to speak and share on this theme. This lecture series will include literature, theatre, philosophy and artistic current and movements.

We invite you to discover the blog dedicated to this yearlong event: franceandgujarat.wordpress.com

Amongst the other speakers in the course of the year will be Mr. Chinu Modi, Mr. Chandrakant Topiwala, Mr. Mahesh Champaklal, Mr. Madhusudan Baxi, Mr. Suman Shah and Mr. Sitanshu Yashaschandra.

We also invite you to share with us your papers, questions and feedback. You can mail us on afa.culture@yahoo.fr

At the end of this project in December 2012, we wish to publish a trilingual book as the documentation of this project and to cater to a larger readership.

“Cyrano thi Shukdan” by Mr. Chinu Modi
Mr. Modi is a renowned poet, gazalkar and playwright. His Gujarati adaptation of Edmond Rostand’s  very famous “Cyrano de Bergerac” is known as “Shukdan”. This is a fabulous attempt of not only adapting a story in a different cultural context but also of matching the physical qualities of the original characters with the adapted ones that everything seems to be very natural, very original. Mr. Modi will also speak of existentialism,  dadaism and surrealism which generated in France and have laid a great impact on the literary current of Gujarat.

Please visit his official website: http://chinumodi.com/Default.aspx

Language of interaction: Gujarati
25 February 2012 – 7:00 pm – Gujarati Sahitya Parishad