Awards ceremony for the 2024 edition of the Multilingual Short Story Competition

The fourth edition of the competition, on the theme of "Animal Languages", invited French-speaking students from all over the world to take a broad approach to plurilingualism, opening up to other imaginary worlds and considering that language is not limited to human beings alone.
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Nouvelle plurilingue 2024 © Inalco‎

The awards ceremony will be attended by writer Elitza Gueorguieva, patron of the 2024 edition of the competition, and author Alexandra Saemmer, patron of the Inciam "Digital Writing" Prize. The evening will honor the winners, whose short story excerpts will be read by actress Pauline Darcel.

The readings will be accompanied by a round-table discussion moderated by Marielle Anselmo (Inalco). She will engage the young authors in dialogue with Isabelle Cros (Aix-Marseille Université) and Laurence Bedoin (Ecole Estienne), both members of the jury.

Eva Donier and Suzie Salerno, students at Ecole Estienne (partner of the competition for the second year running) will present the models they have developed for the publication of the winning short stories from the previous edition.

Finally, the evening will close with the launch of the 2025 edition. To familiarize themselves with it, the public will be invited to take part in an interactive multilingual writing workshop led by Florian Targa (REVE service - Inalco).

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Pauline Darcel © DR‎

About Pauline Darcel

Trained as an actress, Pauline Darcel is also a singer and likes to get her body moving in shows that are often hybrid and close to performance art. After graduating from a literary preparatory class with a theater option, she spent a year in Minsk (Belarus) following a multidisciplinary training program and co-founded her own theater company, La Syncope. She works for other companies as a performer and assistant director.

The Multilingual Short Story Competition is a project supported by Inalco's Student Life and Student Success Department (REVE), with the collaboration of Aix-Marseille Université's InCIAM and the partnership of École Estienne.

Event accredited by the Festival de la francophonie 2024.