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Nicolas Mezzalira | |
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 Nicolas Mezzalira, photograph by Hervé Glot | |
| Occupation | storyteller, speaker |
| Language | French |
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Nicolas Mezzalira is a professional storyteller and current director of the Centre de l'Imaginaire Arthurien. As a a guide to the legendary sites in Paimpont forest[1] he also frequently lectures on the Arthurian legends.
Biography
[edit]Mezzalira graduated from the Lycée Grand Air de La Baule with an Economics and Social Baccalaureate before completing a diploma at the Institute of Political Studies in Rennes. DEA in political sociology in 2001, his thesis was entitled les politiques publiques événementielles et les territoires de l'identité.
Mezzalira worked for many years in the field of international cultural cooperation as a French language teacher in the Dominican Republic and as Project Manager of the European project to safeguard and promote the spoken arts of Vanuatu and Oceania (where he collected stories and published several books and formed a group of young storytellers).
He directed the Centre de l'Imaginaire Arthurien from 2001 to 2002. Cultural and audiovisual representative of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Central America in 2005, Mezzalira became Cultural Attaché of the French Embassy in San José, Costa Rica, then Secretary General and Education Director of the French Institute of Frankfurt and Mainz, Germany in 2007.
In 2008, Mezzalira again became director of the Centre de l'Imaginaire Arthurien at the Chateau de Comper in 2008[2] and lectures particularly on this subject[3].
Bibliography
[edit]- Nabanga, une anthologie illustrée de la littérature orale du Vanuatu[4]
- La légende de l'anguille[5]
- Mashishiki et la femme ailée[6]
Notes and references
[edit]- ^ Ludovic Dunod and Alice Milot, Si loin si proche : La Forêt de Brocéliande ou l’imaginaire au pouvoir, RFI, August 2011
- ^ JT de 13 heures, TF1, 19 février, « Zoom sur Rennes » : La forêt de Brocéliande
- ^ Nicolas Mezzalira, la forêt de Brocéliande et la légende arthurienne, 30 April 2011, Médiathèque du Grand Troyes, 3.30 PM
- ^ http://www.vanuatuculture.org/site-bm2/publications/20060807_nabanga.shtml
- ^ http://www.vanuatuculture.org/site-bm2/products/20061212_thestoryoftheeel.shtml
- ^ http://www.vanuatuculture.org/site-bm2/products/20061208_mashishiki.shtml
External links
[edit]- "Interview du directeur du centre de l'imaginaire arthurien au château de Comper : Monsieur Nicolas Mezzalira".
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|site=ignored (help)(in French) - "Interview de la radio Suisse" [Interview by Radio Suisse].(in French)
