Tag: Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
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Prix Littéraire Fetkann! Maryse Condé 2024 winners announced
Prix littéraire Fetkann! Maryse Condé 2024 winners were announced on Saturday, November 30, 2024. The Prix littéraire Fetkann Maryse Condé rewards the works, collections, research works or essays that promote the work of memory of the countries of the global South and all that goes in the direction of the promotion of human dignity in…
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Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse feted at Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro.
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was feted at the Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro ceremony in Paris, France on Thursday, May 30, 2024 Madame Figaro is a French magazine supplement to the Saturday edition of the daily newspaper Le Figaro, focusing on and catering to women. Grand Prix de l’Héroïne Madame Figaro is a French literary…
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Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse wins Prix France Televisions 2024
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s memoir Le Convoi won at the Prix France Televisions 2024 in Paris, France on Wednesday, May 29, 2024, Prix France Televisions is an annual literary award rewarding authors of works published in French in recent literary news in both fiction and nonfiction since 1995. Previous winners have included Nathacha Appanah, Ali Zamir,…
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Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse is Prix Du Livre Inter 2024 finalist
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s Le Convoi is a finalist for Prix Du Livre Inter 2024; the announcement was made on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. The Prix du Livre Inter is a prize for best French novel of the year awarded by the radio channel France Inter established at the initiative of Paul-Louis Mignon in 1975. The…
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Itamar Vieira Junior wins Prix Montluc Resistance et Liberté 2024
Itamar Vieira Junior’s novel Charrue Tordue won the Prix Montluc Resistance et Liberté 2024 in Lyon, France on Wednesday, April 3, 2024. Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was given a special mention. Prix Montluc Resistance et Liberté (English: Montluc Resistance and Freedom Prize) is awarded to an author, whether French or foreign, whose work questions current methods…
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Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse wins Prix Kourouma 2023.
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse’s novel Consolée was named the winner of Prix Kourouma 2023 at Salon Du Livre Geneva, Switzerland on Friday, March 24, 2023. Ahmadou Kourouma was a legendary Ivorian novelist of many titles including Les Soleils des indépendances (1968), Le diseur de verité (1972), and the most famous Allah n’est pas oblige (2000) which…
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Abubakar Adam Ibrahim, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse now on Audible’s “Afrolit Now” series.
Stories from Abubakar Adam Ibrahim and Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse are now available on the Zukiswa Wanner-curated Audible Afrolit series. Afrolit Now is a series curating short stories from six African writers curated by Zukiswa Wanner in conjunction with Audible. It was inspired by Afrolit Sans Frontières, the virtual literary festival founded by the South African…
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Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, Renee Edwige Dro for James Murua Literary LiveStream in September
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse and Renee Edwige Dro are the guests of the James Murua Literary LiveStream on Wednesday, September 29, 2021 at 18:00 GMT/ 19:00 WAT/ 20:00 CAT/ 21:00 EAT. You can join the stream, brought to you in cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmesse with financial support from the German Federal Foreign Office, on Facebook, YouTube,…
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Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse is Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2020 winner
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was announced as the winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie 2020 for her book Tous tes enfants dispersés on January 27, 2020. Prix des Cinq Continents de la Francophonie (English: Five Continents Prize of the Francophonie) was established by the International Organization of the Francophonie in 2001. It…
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Prix Ethiophile 2020 finalists announced.
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse, Johary Ravaloson, Abdourahman A. Wabéri, and Dalie Farah are the finalists for the Prix Ethiophile 2020 announced on June 24, 2020. Prix Ethiophile is an annual literary prize founded in 2015 which rewards French-speaking, African or Caribbean texts. The price alternates between the novel, poetry, theater, and essay genres. Previous winners of…
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Prix Kourouma 2020 shortlist announced.
The shortlist for Prix Kourouma 2020 was announced on Wednesday, June 24, 2020. Ahmadou Kourouma was the Ivorian novelist who wrote Allah N’est Pas (Allah is Not Obliged) in 2002, En Attendant Le Vote Des Bêtes Sauvages (Waiting for the Wild Beasts to Vote) in 1998, and Les Soleils Des Indépendances (The Suns of Independence)…
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Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse at day three of Season 3 of Afrolit Sans Frontières.
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse kicked off day three of Season 3 of Afrolit Sans Frontières from Bordeaux, France on May 27, 2020. She was hosted by Merdi Mukore. Afrolit Sans Frontières, a virtual literary festival for writers of African origin, started as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic international lockdown in March. It has had two…