Prix Jean-Marie Adiaffi de la Littérature Ivoirienne 2025 finalists were announced on Saturday, March 1, 2025.
Jean-Marie Adé Adiaffi or Jean-Marie Adiaffi was a writer, screenwriter, filmmaker and Ivorian critic. He studied film at Institut des hautes études cinématographiques and philosophy at the Sorbonne, before going back to Côte d’Ivoire to teach. He passed away in November 1999.
Prix Jean-Marie Adiaffi de la Littérature Ivoirienne (English: the Jean-Marie Adiaffi prize for Ivorian literature) was set up to celebrate the best in literature from the West African nation. Those who participated were encouraged to submit their fiction, poetry, and plays to the new award.
The finalists for 2025 were selected from 68 submitted novels, short stories and plays, 16 of which had been pre-selected during the first phase of the competition. A pre-jury examined these texts for several weeks before deciding in favor of the 10 titles retained for the final phase. The ten finalists are;
- Au secours, mes parents divorcent!, Marie-Danielle Aka (Vallesse Editions)
- Belles façades, Gué Danh Désiré (Les Editions E’star)
- Ces soleils ardents, Nincémon Fallé (La case des lucioles)
- Délivre-moi du mâle, Grâce Minlibé (Vallesse Editions)
- La légende de Kinifo 2, Pénakligui Edgar Touré (Les Editions Calebasse)
- La promesse entêtée, l’ombre, Henri N’koumo (Les Classiques ivoiriens)
- L’écho des remords, Anzata Ouattara (Les Editions Mouna)
- Le revirement de Damas, Gbidi Roland (Les Classiques ivoiriens)
- Murmures, Suzel Grié-Azoumé (Les classiques africains)
- Retour au Kwazulu, Moussa Sanogo-Pephangneli (Pépite Editions)
The winner who will receive a 1,000,000 CFA francs cash prize will be announced in Abidjan on Saturday, April 26, 2025.
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