Category: Beligium
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Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2025 finalists announced
The Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2025 finalists were announced on Tuesday, December 10, 2024. Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie (English: Five Continents Prize of the Francophonie) was established by the International Organization of the Francophonie in 2001. Worth €15,000, it is aimed at highlighting literary talents reflecting the expression of…
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Asmara-Addis Literary Festival (In Exile) 2024 starts November 29
Asmara-Addis Literary Festival (In Exile) 2024 will be held in Brussels, Belgium from November 29 – 30, 2024. The Asmara-Addis Literary Festival (In Exile), founded by novelist Sulaiman Addonia, was first hosted in the Belgian city of Brussels in 2019. The festival which included readings, panel discussions, book chats, and other activities ran again in…
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SGDL Grands Prix 2024 first selection announced.
Lisette Lombe and Diadié Dembele are on the first selection for Societe Des Gens De Lettre’s Grands Prix 2024 announced on Monday, April 29, 2024. Societe Des Gens De Lettre (English: The Society of People of Letters) (SGDL) is a French association for the promotion of law and the defence of the interests of authors.…
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Translations: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Blaise Ndala, Djaïli Amadou Amal, Lisette Lombe
Translations for books by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Blaise Ndala, Djaïli Amadou Amal, and Lisette Lombe are available for your reading pleasure. La Femme Premiere by Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi Book: La Femme PremiereOriginal Title: The First WomanAuthor: Jennifer Nansubuga MakumbiTranslator: Céline SchwallerPublisher: Editions MétailiéPublishing Date: March 1, 2024Language: English to FrenchWhere to Find it: Editions Métailié…
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Lisette Lombe wins Grand Prix du Roman 2023
Lisette Lombe’s novel Eunice won the Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium’s Grand Prix du Roman 2023 on Saturday, March 9, 2024. The Académie royale de langue et de littérature françaises de Belgique – Royal Academy of French Language and Literature of Belgium – or ARLLFB is a Belgian institution that brings…
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Bessora wins Prix Kourouma 2024
Bessora’s novel Vous, les ancêtres was announced as the winner of Prix Kourouma 2024 in Geneva, Switzerland on Friday, March 8, 2024. Ahmadou Kourouma was a legendary Ivorian novelist of many titles including Les Soleils des indépendances (1968), Le Diseur de verité (1972), and the most famous Allah n’est pas oblige (2000) which was translated…
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Prix Médicis 2023 first selection announced
Ananda Devi, Lisette Lombé, and Salma El Moumni are on the first selection for the Prix Médicis 2023 announced on Thursday, September 21, 2022. The Prix Médicis was founded by Gala Barbisan and Jean-Pierre Giraudoux to recognise a novel, a story, a collection of short stories whose author begins or does not yet have a…
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Asmara-Addis Literary Festival (In Exile) 2022 to be hosted in May.
The Asmara-Addis Literary Festival (In Exile) 2022, will be hosted in Brussels, Belgium from May 29-31, 2022. This year’s theme is “Say It Loud, The Art Of Unsubtlety.” The Asmara-Addis Literary Festival (In Exile), founded by novelist Sulaiman Addonia, was first hosted in the Belgian city of Brussels in 2019. It was attended by among…
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Jean D’Amerique wins Prix Fintro Prijs 2021.
Jean D’Amerique was awarded the Prix Fintro Prijs 2021 at a ceremony in Antwerp, Belgium on Wednesday, November 24, 2021. Prix Fintro Prijs is a prize to support young Belgian artists in the three categories of Painting, Sculpture and Photography; Cinema, Theater and Dance; as well as Literature. In the literature category, young authors of…
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Sulaiman Addonia wins at Belgium’s Golden Afro Artistic Awards 2021.
Sulaiman Addonia was revealed to be a winner at the Golden Afro Artistic Awards 2021 for literature in Brussels, Belgium on Saturday, September 11, 2021. The Golden Afro Artistic Awards were founded to highlight hidden talents from the African diaspora, Afro-descendant talents who find it difficult to receive all the light spots that there are…