“The Art of Losing” by Alice Zeniter, the granddaughter of a Harki*, recently won the Students’ Goncourt prize for its portrait of a family caught on the wrong side of history. The article shows how Michel Talata, a Harki’s son, used art (a children’s illustrated storybook and a contemporary artwork exhibition) not to lose the memory of his ancestors. His textual and pictorial works are narratives of both filiation and reconciliation.

 

Link to the Article: https://theconversation.com/non-pas-lart-de-perdre-mais-lart-pour-ne-pas-perdre-la-memoire-harkie-89602