Pascal Manoukian
Biography
Pascal Manoukian, photographer, journalist, writer and general director of the Capa media agency, will be there night bird submitted his first novel. 2013 was the documentary book The devil in the palm of your hand published, which reports on his experiences from more than twenty years of work as a war reporter.
Manoukian says about himself that it was his Armenian roots that made him keep touching the wounds of that time: conflicts, trouble spots and the fate of those who were born in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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Europe 1992. They meet in Villeneuve-le-Roi near Paris: Virgil, who fled Moldova in the underbody of a truck, Chanchal from Bangladesh and the Somali Assan, who is trying to save his daughter Iman from civil war and oppression. They come as the vanguard of the many who will cross Europe's borders in the years to come. As “sans-papiers” the four of them struggle through in France, form a community of destiny, experience mistreatment, exploitation and contempt, but also solidarity and humanity.
Translated from the French by Dorothee Calvillo
