Inalco competition prize for multilingual short stories

How can we convey this dialogue of languages - which is also the dialogue of everyday life in our globalized world - in a literary text? It's this tension between French and other languages, those that are antipodes to it (such as the Oriental, African and Oceanic languages taught at Inalco) as well as those closest to it, but also between so-called "standard" or "reference" French and its social and geographical varieties (verlan, joual, Creole languages, nouchi, Marseillais, etc.) that we propose you explore in the Inalco Plurilingual Short Story Competition. This competition imposes the following linguistic constraint: use at least one other language or variety of French in addition to so-called "standard" French.

Jury composition

The jury, made up of outside personalities, teaching/research and administrative staff, as well as Inalco students, is constituted by the Concours de la nouvelle plurilingue organizing committee. A pre-jury selects the best texts for the two-round competition; the Grand Jury, made up among others of the writer sponsors and personalities from the world of books or the media, representatives of Inalco and the publisher of Éditions Tangentielles, selects the three prizewinners and possibly the special mention (coup de coeur du Grand Jury).

The following prizes are awarded

• 1st prize, culture voucher worth €500
• 2nd prize, culture voucher worth €200
• 3rd prize, culture voucher worth €100
• Special prize InCIAM "digital writing", culture voucher worth €400 + promotion and distribution of the work online and in the Editions Tangentielles book, as well as at various events linked to the competition

A Grand Jury Coup de Coeur is possible, with a purely honorary dimension, and no financial reward.
The best short stories (between 3 and 12 short stories, depending on the Grand Jury's choice) will also be published by Editions Tangentielles with editorial support, and their authors will be invited to take part in a writing workshop led by one of the competition's sponsors or another writing specialist.