FLUP IS ONE OF THE MAIN LITERARY EVENTS OF THE FRANCE-BRAZIL SEASON

Mesa com Conceição Evaristo e Bernardine Evaristo, durante a edição da Flup 2024, no Circo Voador. Foto: Hildemar Terceiro.

In 2025, Brazil and France will celebrate 200 years of diplomatic relations with a series of cultural, political, and social gatherings that reaffirm historic ties and renew cooperation between the two countries. The France-Brazil Season was announced by Presidents Lula and Emmanuel Macron, who recently met in Paris and will meet again soon in Nice.

In the field of literature, one of the season's highlights is the partnership between Flup – Festa Literária das Periferias, in Rio de Janeiro, and the traditional French festival Étonnants Voyageurs, held in Saint-Malo.

In June, the French festival welcomed a delegation of Brazilian authors selected by Flup's curators. In November, Flup will welcome a significant delegation of French and African writers and artists, cementing an unprecedented exchange between literary territories of the global South and the Francophone world.

“ The exchange between the two festivals contributes to strengthening the cultural and thought relationship between our two countries ,” said Anne Louyot, French curator of the season.

The 15th edition of Flup, which takes place from November 19th to 23rd, will welcome more than 40 authors, poets, and thinkers from the Francophone world, including names from Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, and the French periphery. Confirmed speakers include Patrick Chamoiseau (a Caribbean literary icon), Felwine Sarr (an economist and philosopher of decolonization), Bonaventure Ndikung (a leading figure in racial and gender studies), Malcolm Ferdinand (an eco-activist and climate justice theorist), and Mabolula Soumahoro (an Afro-diasporic researcher).

Furthermore, the program will pay tribute to the thought of Édouard Glissant, a theorist of creolization, whose work inspires new ways of thinking about cultural diversity and the encounters between languages, territories, and identities.

Louyot also highlights: “ We also work with Guyana, Martinique and Guadeloupe to promote a France that Brazil does not yet know ”, expanding the symbolic and intellectual reach of the season and revealing often invisible layers of contemporary French culture.

Flup's participation reaffirms the central role of the peripheries as territories of creation, thought and transatlantic connection.

This achievement is only possible thanks to the support of the partners of the France-Brazil 2025 Season: ENGIE, ADEO – Leroy Merlin, JCDecaux, Sanofi, LVMH, CNP Assurances, TotalEnergies, Vinci, L'Oréal, BNP Paribas, Carrefour, VICAT, SCOR, CMA CGM and Airbus . By supporting the Season, each of these companies contributes to building a more plural, fair and sustainable future.