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  • Prix du Livre Européen et Méditerranéen 2024 finalists announced.

    Prix du Livre Européen et Méditerranéen 2024 finalists announced.

    Diadié Dembélé and Akli Tadjer are Prix du Livre Européen et Méditerranéen 2024 finalists; the announcement was made on Sunday, December 15, 2024. Prix du Livre Européen et Méditerranéen is a literary prize that rewards a European or Mediterranean book and helps to bring together the cultures of the two shores of the Mediterranean. Founded…

  • Lire à Douala 2023 starts March 26

    Lire à Douala 2023 starts March 26

    Lire à Douala 2023 is set to be hosted in the Cameroonian city of Douala from March 26 – 30, 2023. The festival theme is “literature connects and repairs”. “Lire à Douala” (English: reading in Doula) is an association whose objective is to promote reading, written expression and the development of literary culture, in particular…

  • Diadié Dembélé wins Prix littéraire de la vocation 2022

    Diadié Dembélé wins Prix littéraire de la vocation 2022

    Diadié Dembélé’s Le Duel Des Grands-Mères was declared the winner of Prix de la Vocation 2022 on Wednesday, September 21, 2022. The Prix Littéraire de la Vocation (English: Literary Vocation Award) was established by the Marcel-Bleustein-Blanchet Foundation to support a young writer working aged 18 to 30 years in 1976. Some of the previous winners…