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Lu Min is an award-winning Chinese novelist, best known for such works as  Dinner for Six ,  This Love Could Not Be Delivered  and  The Man Who Could Not Die , which have been translated into a dozen languages, bringing her perceptive eye and an authentic Chinese perspective to readers around the world. Born in the countryside of Jiangsu Province, she cycled through jobs as a post office clerk, jo...

Alia Ibrahim is a leading Lebanese journalist and media innovator, known for her work at The Daily Star , The Washington Post , and Al Arabiya, and as the co-founder and CEO of Daraj Media , an award-winning independent Arabic news platform recognized for its investigative reporting and regional impact. A pioneer in the region, she is among the rare female reporters to have covered from the frontl...

Gaspard Koenig is one of France’s most original public intellectuals — a philosopher, novelist, founder of the GenerationLibre think tank, and even a one-time presidential candidate. When he isn’t writing or debating ideas, Koenig can often be found tending to his garden and horses on a small farm in Normandy, exploring what he calls his “down-to-earth era.” For him, the countryside is not a retre...

Shi Yang Shi is a Chinese-Italian actor, translator, and author, best known for his roles in Italian films and television, including Go Go Tales , Tradita , and Enea , as well as his appearances on the satirical TV show Le Iene . Born in Ji'nan, China, and raised in Italy from the age of 11, he has become a familiar face on Italian screens while carving out a career that bridges cultures and l...

Diariata N’Diaye is a French slam poet and activist who has become one of France’s leading figures in the battle against sexism and sexual violence. Speaking with Paris Calling, the self-described “artivist” retraces how her dual French-Senegalese upbringing shaped her personality, including a forced marriage in Senegal, which prompted her to start writing her first songs that were private express...

Karol Noroña is an Ecuadorian investigative journalist from Quito whose reporting on organized crime, prison massacres, and state collusion forced her into exile in 2023 after repeated death threats from members of the Lobos cartel. She returned to her hometown in June 2024 to present her book Ausencias , a collection of reportages on violence in Ecuador. Speaking with Paris Calling , Noroña retra...

Chantal Lamarre is a well-known Canadian comedian, actor, and TV presenter, known best for her place in Quebecois television programs like Infoman and Les Trois Mousquetaires , radio shows like ICI Première , and most recently in her live show Steppettes et Cornemuse . Lamarre talks to Paris Calling about going from being a shy child to an outspoken performer, the challenges of sexism in showbusin...

This is Paris Calling, where each week we encounter a notable person from somewhere around the world. We are breaking new ground by bringing non-English interviews into English with the use of AI tools that allow us to translate our guest’s words, without changing their voice.  Founded in 2011, ⁠⁠ Worldcrunch ⁠⁠ is a pioneering global news outlet that brings the world’s best reporting into English...

Franceso Zizola is an acclaimed Italian photojournalist, having won major awards, including World Press Photo of the Year in 1997, along with more than a dozen awards from the World Press Photo Foundation. His latest book Diaries is a journey through some of his most celebrated images over a 40-year career.  But the lifelong Roman also spoke with Paris Calling about his worries about the current s...