An afternoon with DAVID FOENKINOS AND ASHOK FERREY

Ever wanted to have a cup of tea with literati? Well, an afternoon tea at the Galle Face Hotel is in order when Ashok Ferry, the well known Sri Lankan author and illustrator will read and will be in conversation with David Foenikinos’and his novel Memories on 13th July at 4pm, at the 1864. The turning point of David’s career is done with The Delicacy (2009), critically acclaimed book that gets 10 awards and over a million copies. In 2014, with his novel Charlotte, D. Foenkinos knows the consecration. This became a best seller with 450,000 copies sold.

He is also a film maker, in 2010 in broaden his horizons and, along with his brother Stéphane Foenkinos, co-directed the film The Delicacy, adaptation of his eponymous novel. The film was nominated twice to the 2012 César Ceremony for the Best Adaptation and for the Best First Film. Following this success, in 2014, he co-adapted his novel Memories. The film, directed by Jean-Paul Rouve, met a great success with over a million tickets sold in France. For all who wish to watch the screening of this novel Memories, which he adapted to the 7th art with Jean Paul Rouvesit will beheld on Wednesday, July 13th for the opening of the French Film Festival.

Every year in June-July, the Embassy of France and the network of the Alliance Française have the pleasure to organise the French Spring Festival, a series of multidisciplinary events celebrating arts and culture from both France and Sri Lanka. From the 3rd of June until the French Bastille Day on the 14th of July, the 5th edition of the French Spring Festival will showcase a variety of events. Visual arts, cinema, literature, cuisine, fashion and musical rhythms will contribute to strengthen the ties between European and south Asian cultures, offering a platform for free expression of the artists, as well as a range of outstanding cultural explorations and discoveries.