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born 1981 France

Leïla Slimani (born 3 October 1981) is a French-Moroccan writer and journalist. She is also a French diplomat in her capacity as the personal representative of the French president Emmanuel Macron to the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie.

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My first mission will be to de-age the very notion of Francophonie, to restore its luster, its youth, its dynamism.

You only have to travel around the world, especially in Africa for example or in the Maghreb, to see how much of an appetite there is for French.

I speak French, English and an Arabic dialect. This is something that is very natural for me and that I don’t think about.

It is a fascinating and very rewarding job on a human level. French is a global language, which lives and flourishes on all the continents, with accents, turns of phrase and metaphors which belong to each landscape. It is quite extraordinary to see the flexibility of this language and to understand its constant creolisation and transformation.

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