Festival International le Souffle de l’Harmattan 2024 will be hosted in N’djamena, Chad from October 23 – 26, 2024. The festival theme is “History, Roots and Memories.”
Festival International le Souffle de l’Harmattan (English: Breath of the Harmattan Festival), popularly known as FISH, was founded by Mbernodji Sosthène in 2014. Sosthène is the executive secretary of the Association of Chadian Writers and Authors of French Expression (Aset). The “International Festival of Writing, Writers, and Thought” which is hosted annually has writers express themselves to encourage other voices and the emergence of other talents.
In 2024, the festival will feature readings, book presentations and author signings; photo exhibitions, excursions, and the awarding of distinctions to writers. It will be held under the theme “History, Roots and Memories” with an ambition to build the library of our memories and events that marked the existence of our community. Without substituting the witness for the historian, its organizers want to give a voice to the countless cultural professionals, who have directly or not experienced an event that has become history.
The headliner for this year’s festival, from communications earlier in the year, is scheduled to be legendary Chad-born Swiss-based author Noël Nétonon Ndjékéry. He is the author of many titles including the novels Sang de kola (1999), Chroniques tchadiennes (2008), Mosso (2011) Au petit bonheur la brousse (2019), Il n’y a pas d’arc-en-ciel au paradis (2022) and the short story collections La descente aux enfers (1993) and La minute mongole (2014). some of his literary awards have been Grand Prix littéraire national du Tchad 2017, Prix Hors Concours 2022, Grand prix littéraire d’Afrique noire 2022, and Prix Lettres frontière 2023.
For more information about this festival, including their appeal for support from patrons, please visit their official Facebook page by clicking here.
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