Nincemon Fallé. Photo/Véronique Cardi

Nincemon Fallé is Afriques-Haïti Residency 2025 winner

Nincemon Fallé was announced the winner of the Francophone writing residency Afriques-Haïti 2025 on Friday, January 17, 2025.

The Afriques-Haïti writing residency, aimed at promoting the emergence of new African and Haitian literary talents was first handed out in 2017. It is designed as a 6 to 8-week course within structures involved in contemporary writing in the neo-Aquitaine region: the Villa Valmont in Lormont, the Maison des écritures and the Centre Intermondes in La Rochelle, and the Maison des auteurs·rices des Francophonies in Limoges. It is co-sponsored by ALCA Nouvelle-Aquitaine, Institut des Afriques, and the French Institute of Senegal in partnership with the Maison des Écritures. Previous winners have been Darline Gilles, Dominique Celis, Jacques Houégbè, Hermine Yollo, Gaëlle Bien-Aimé, Patrick Erwin Michel, and Nathalie Hounvo Yekpe.

The winner for the 2025 edition was revealed to be Ivorian writer Nincemon Fallé who first came to our attention when he won the Prix Voix d’Afriques 2024. The residency is an opportunity to work on writing the first volume of a high fantasy trilogy called “Etiofari”. A project that he sees as “a great epic saga, between “Ségou” and “Who’s Afraid of Death?”, summoning the spirituality and history of Africa on an unprecedented scale.”

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