Category: Chad
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Chad’s Festival International le Souffle de l’Harmattan 2023 for October.
Festival International le Souffle de l’Harmattan 2023 will be hosted in N’djamena, Chad from October 10 – 14, 2023. The festival theme is “Witnesses to history, breath of victory.” Festival International le Souffle de l’Harmattan (English: Breath of the Harmattan) was founded by Mbernodji Sosthène in 2014. Sosthène is the executive secretary of the Association…
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Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry wins Grand Prix Littéraire d’Afrique Noire 2022.
Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry’s Il n’y a pas d’arc-en-ciel au Paradis was declared the winner of Grand Prix Littéraire d’Afrique Noire 2022 in Paris, France on Saturday, March 18, 2022. Grand Prix Littéraire d’Afrique Noire is a literary prize presented every year by the Association of French Language Writers (ADELF) for a French original text from…
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Chad’s Festival International le Souffle de l’Harmattan 2022 for December.
Festival International le Souffle de l’Harmattan 2022 will be hosted in N’djamena, Chad from December 14 – 17, 2022. The festival theme is “Witnesses to history, breath of victory.” Festival International le Souffle de l’Harmattan (English: Breath of the Harmattan) was founded during a “cardinal moment for Chadian literature” by Mbernodji Sosthène in 2014. Sosthène…
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Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry wins Prix Hors Concours 2022
Nétonon Noël Ndjékéry’s Il n’y a pas d’arc-en-ciel au paradis was declared the winner of Prix Hors Concours 2022 in Paris, France on November 28, 2022. Prix Hors Concours is a French literary prize rewarding exclusively French-speaking authors published by independent publishers whose turnover is less than one million euros but which is capable of…
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Prix Ivoire for African Literature 2022 finalists announced
The finalists for Prix Ivoire for African Literature in French, the leading literary prize from Cote D’Ivoire, were announced on August 13, 2022. The Prix Ivoire is an award created by Akwaba Culture, an Ivorian law association in 2008. Open to writers from Africa and its Diasporas, the winner gets a two million CFA francs…
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Nimrod’s “Petit Praise De La Lumière Nature” is Prix Apollinaire 2020 winner
Nimrod’s poetry collection Petit Praise De La Lumière Nature was announced the winner of the Prix Apollinaire 2020 on December 2, 2020. The Prix Guillaume Apollinaire, named in honour of French writer Guillaume Apollinaire, is a French poetry prize first awarded in 1941. It crowns a collection characterized by its originality and modernity. Some winners…