Our guest: Patrick chamoiseau : “We must have the wealth of all the languages of the world”

Patrick Chamoiseau, one of the Caribbean’s leading writers, has published numerous essays and novels, including Texaco, which won the Prix Goncourt in 1992. This native of Martinique (France), heir to Aimé Césaire and Édouard Glissant, also helped forge the concept of créolité, which places the Creole language at the heart of a project for emancipation and reflection on the cross-fertilization of cultures. Reminding us that no hierarchy exists between languages, he invites us to free ourselves from an inevitably sclerotic monolingual imaginary.