MY FAVORITE WRITTER IN FRANCE IN APRIL 2014

James Ellroy, flag bearer polar Lyon

The American writer will be the special of the tenth edition of the Lyon literary festival in 2014 prompted. Participation confirms the popularity of a genre celebrated with great pomp in the capital of the Gauls.
The organizers of cultural events in Lyon seized the shoe technique for large fish . After Quentin Tarantino for the Light festival , dedicated to the cinema , this time it is the programmers Quais du Polar , who took in their nets James Ellroy . Prominent figure of noir , it will celebrate the literature of this kind from 4 to 6 April between the Rhone and Saone. The author of the best- sellerstels that The Black Dahlia and LA Confidential, if sometimes elusive , is considered one of the leading figures of the roman noir . For thirty years , he likes to treat dark hours of the United States , through stories of gangsters, crooked cops more or less tormented and women . In Lyon , the American succeeds , as a guest of prestige, Harlan Coben (2013 ), John Connolly (2012) and David Peace (2011). This year , other authors have been invited as the Scandinavian novelist Camilla Läckberg , South African Deon Meyer or American Craig Johnson.
Do not expect to talk to him he can be very nice or as is often the case, very stupid. I once met with me he had been really cool.