A vast world in ten minutes • Georgia Makhlouf

Novelist, journalist, francophone literary critic, writing workshop leader, and French correspondent for L'Orient littéraire Georgia Makhlouf has a talent for elegantly weaving East-West relations through her novels from a perspective that wavers between fascination and repulsion, as in Les Absents. In her latest book, Port-au-Prince Aller-retour, she paints a family fresco against a backdrop of the history of Syrian-Lebanese migrants who settled in Haiti.