Prix Voix d’Afriques
Programme for young authors from the African continent
Programme
Initiated by JC Lattès and RFI, in partnership with the Cité internationale des arts, Voix d’Afriques is a literary prize designed to bring to light young francophone authors from the African continent. The prize supports and highlights new African literary voices, novels reflecting the situation of a country, current political, economic or social events, or more intimate narratives.
This writing competition is open to anyone under the age of 30 who has never been published and lives in an African country. Over 14,000 people have registered on the platform since the first edition of the competition. Each novel has offered a unique take on Africa, a reflection on History, what education makes possible, what dreams men and women carry in the face of harsh powers, closed borders, what secrets they keep preciously, what their struggles and weapons are shaped like : poetry, humor, mutual aid, imagination.
About
1 residency every two years
2 months’ residency
Programme created in 2020
Eligibility criteria
- Be a national and resident of a country on the African continent
- Be under 30 years old
- Be a francophone author who has never been published
The partners of this programme :
Open to all areas of contemporary curiosity, Éditions JC Lattès has achieved numerous successes: an Interallié prize with Serge Bramly, a Renaudot prize and a Goncourt des lycéens for Delphine de Vigan, two Prix des Libraires including Marc Dugain, the revelation Grégoire Delacourt, four Nobel prizes with Svetlana Aleksievitch, Muhammad Yunus, Kazuo Ishiguro and Professor Luc Montagnier, as well as the alternative Nobel awarded to Maryse Condé in 2018.
RFI is a French news radio station, broadcast worldwide in French and 16 other languages, via 151 FM relays, on shortwave, on some 30 satellites to all five continents, on the Internet and connected applications, and has more than 1,870 radio partners who carry its programs.
