Overview: Barlen Pyamootoo: 'We Had to Save the Trou-d’Eau-Douce Book Festival'

The echoes of a successful novel drowned out the sound of the waves. In Trou-d’Eau-Douce, a page was torn from the book festival that took place from October 3 to 5. This was the posthumous tribute that was scheduled during the Night of Reading for one of the authors who passed away in 2024, Jean-Gérard Théodore.

The reading of one of his poems was canceled following a controversy that stirred social media. Internet users had made a connection between Jean-Gérard T...