Bérengère Cournut draws on Patagonia's vanishing Kawesqar voices for a new novel
To write "Eskera au bord du monde," about the endangered Kawesqar people, the French author consulted several anthropologists and made two trips to Patagonia, one of them gruelling, according to Le Monde.
French writer Bérengère Cournut has published a novel, "Eskera au bord du monde," built around the Kawesqar, a nomadic people of Patagonia whose numbers and language are dwindling, according to Le Monde.
To research the book, Cournut met with several anthropologists and travelled twice to Patagonia, one of the journeys described by Le Monde as physically demanding.
Le Monde's account centers on how the novelist worked to carry what it calls the millennia-old speech of the Kawesqar into fiction, though the source material does not detail the novel's plot, publisher, or length.
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