NOIR IN MUMBAI premieres in India as part of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest
Along with the presence of three rising stars of French crime fiction – Johana Gustawsson aka the Queen of French Noir, Sophie Hénaff with her Awkward Squad and Jérôme Loubry and his addictive thrillers – we are bringing in a unique event, The Kala Ghoda mystery, which will take the audience through the narrow streets of Mumbai’s Art District, to resolve the mystery of the theft of the Kala Ghoda!
Created by writer Kalpana Swaminathan, based on the great investigation organized every year at Quais du Polar festival in Lyon (France), this urban trail will require the participants’ entire attention to gather clues hidden on their way and get a chance to win two tickets to France!
How to Participate
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Follow The Steps:
- Register to secure your participation by sending an email to: [email protected]
- Pick up your booklet at the Alliance Française de Bombay on Sunday, 13th November anytime from 10 am to 2 pm
- Follow the steps in the booklet and answer the mystery
- Deposit your answer sheet at the final stop at Kitab Khana before 4 pm
- Join US for the closing ceremony and the lucky draw at NCPA at 5 pm
Follow The Steps:
- Register to secure your participation by sending an email to: [email protected]
- Pick up your booklet at the Alliance Française de Bombay on Sunday, 13th November anytime from 10 am to 2 pm
- Follow the steps in the booklet and answer the mystery
- Deposit your answer sheet at the final stop at Kitab Khana before 4 pm
- Join US for the closing ceremony and the lucky draw at NCPA at 5 pm
Authors on tour
Jérôme Loubry was born in Saint-Amand Montrond, famous for its book printing business, where his passion for writing was born. He now resides in the South of France. In five years and with five books he has received more than twelve prizes, in France and abroad, including the “Prix de cognac”, “Prix de Bruxelles” and ” Prix du livre de poche”. Two of his books The Refuge and The Final Chapter are available in English.
French journalist and novelist, she writes in the French Cosmopolitan newspaper and has a humour column La Cosmoliste. She started out in a Lyon-based café-theatre before opening a card and board game bar, and then, finally, entering journalism. Poulets Grillés (The Awkward Squad) her first novel published in 2015 , about an investigation led by a brigade composed of undesirable elements of the police.
Born in Marseille, France, and with a degree in Political Science Johana Gustawsson writes books in the Nordic noir. She has worked as a journalist for the French and Spanish press and television. Her critically acclaimed Roy & Castells series (Block 46, Keeper and Blood Song) has won the Plume d’Argent, Balai de la découverte, Balai d’Or and Prix Marseillais du Polar awards, and is now published in twenty-three countries.