Nincemon Fallé’s Ces Soleils Ardents won the Prix de la Vocation 2024 on Wednesday, September 25, 2024.
The Prix Littéraire de la Vocation (English: Literary Vocation Award) was established by the Marcel-Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation to help a young French-speaking novelist aged 18 to 30 years in 1976. Previous winners include Diadié Dembélé, Kaouther Adimi, and Salim Bachi.
The jury comprises Kaouther Adimi, Jean-Luc Barré, Pierre Ducrozet, Alain Germain, Christophe Ono-dit-Biot, Erik Orsenna, Philippe Taquet, and Emilie de Turckheim. They did their work with the participation of bloggers Ghislaine Antoine, Sylvie Ferrando, Nicole Grundlinger, and Dominique Sudre.
On Wednesday, they announced the winner to be Ces Soleils Ardents (JC Lattès)by Abidjan-based Nincemon Fallé. Ces Soleils Ardents, winner of Prix Voix d’Afriques 2024, is a novel of initiation: certainties collapse, new, more complex truths appear: who was his father, what success is he pursuing, what did he leave in the village when he believed he would gain his freedom elsewhere.
The Ivorian goes home with the 10,000 euro endowment.
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