Shahrazad - Stories for life

Former guest Writer in Molde City of Refuge, Gilles Dossou-Gouin, has released a new collection of poems.

In Veøya, une rencontre de foi avec l'Europe (Veøya, an encounter of faith with Europe) Gilles Dossou-Gouin presents a collection of poems describing the Norwegian island Veøya, its mysticism and religious roots. Veøya is located in the municipality of Molde in Møre og Romsdal county. The island was Norway's first legally protected land, and the buildings on the island are now part of the Romsdal Museum. It was the religious center of the Romsdal region and the name is a compound of vé which means "sanctuary" and øy which means "island", thus a holy island.

This spring, Gilles Dossou-Gouin's latest book "La liberté d'expression dans la tradition des peuples noirs" was published in Canada. Novelist, poet and human rights activist Dossou-Gouin is originally from Benin, and now a former ICORN Guest Writer of Molde City of Refuge. Before coming to Norway, he lived in exile in Senegal.