IFT at the Tunis Book Fair | Reading drawn in music

The French Institute of Tunisia (IFT) is organizing an event at the International Book Fair in Tunis: Reading drawn in music with Karthika Naïr and Joëlle Jolivet.

This event scheduled for Saturday, May 3 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. around albums Le Tigre de Miel (Hélium, 2013) and the Pothakudi electric birds (Hélium, 2022) by Karthika Naïr and Joëlle Jolivet and will be accompanied in Kanoun by Imen Mourali.

Reading will be followed by a signing session in collaboration with the cultural bookstore.

—– Joëlle Jolivet —–

French illustrator, Joëlle Jolivet has always drawn and then painted and engraved. After studying graphics at the Higher School of Applied Arts Duperré in Paris, she is interested in lithography and takes courses at the School of Fine Arts in Paris. This leads her to Linoleum engraving, her main means of expression.
She has published numerous albums worldwide, illustrated novel covers and works regularly for the press.

—— karthika nair ——

Poet, writer, programmer and dance producer, Karthika Naïr influences the French contemporary scene of dance as well as the international literary scene. In addition to her collaborations with renowned choreographers like Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Akram Khan or Damien Jalet, she publishes several books, including a very noticed adaptation of Mahabharata (translated in French in 2024 under the title The Song of Lionesses, to the New Attila) and the two stories The Honey Tiger (Helium, 2013) and the electric birds of Pothakudi (Hélium, 2022) with the illustrator Joëlle Jolivet

–– Imen mourali ––

Imen Mourali is a Tunisian multi-instrumentalist musician, formed from childhood at the Percussion Conservatory, Kanoun, musical theory, as well as in oriental and Tunisian modes and rhythms. A graduate in Arabic music in 2008, she continued her career by exploring various styles: Greek music, Latin, Klezmer, French song and jazz. Still looking for new musical discoveries, she co -founded several projects: FN’Art (2013), Annava (2015), then Philia (2018). She was a percussionist in Jazmin, a gypsy jazz group and New Orleans.