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The Inalco Multilingual Short Story Competition 2022 announces its winners
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Le palmarès 2022
Three grand prizes and one special prize were awarded:
- 1st prize: Everything that lives but us, Simon Lhéritier - culture voucher worth €500
- 2nd prize: Les vrilles de sa vigne, Jeanne Meslin - culture voucher in the amount of €200
- 3rd prize: Petit bout, Amélie Schüning - culture voucher in the amount of €100
- Special InCIAM "digital work" prize: Les évaporés, Ed Snowcrash - culture check worth €500
The winners will be invited to take part in a writing workshop and will have their short story published in the collective work Langues en germe (éditions Tangentielles).
To read/experience the winning digital work, simply register on the short story website with an email address. Go in search of the "evaporated" in an online treasure hunt on the frontier between digital literature and interactive books.
Winners honored at awards ceremony
The winners were unveiled at the awards ceremony on April 18, 2023, in the presence of the winning students and the competition's godmother: Franco-Mauritian novelist Ananda Devis. During a round table discussion, the young authors were able to talk to the members of the jury: Marielle Anselmo (Inalco), Ananda Devi (competition sponsor), Nabil Wakim (Le Monde), Isabelle Cros (Aix-Marseille Université, jury president), Laurence Bedoin (École Estienne) and Florian Targa (Inalco).
Actor Sophie Bourel and Simon Lhéritier presented a two-voice reading-perfomance of the first prize-winning short story, Tout ce qui vit sauf nous.
The event ended with a participatory multilingual writing experience with the audience.
Find on our Facebook page a selection of photos taken during the event.
L'École Estienne joins the competition
L'éditions Tangentielles has partnered with the "Graphic Design and Typography" course at the École supérieure des arts et industries graphiques (École Estienne). The students proposed four creative editorial layout projects for the publication of the 2021 collection, Langues en danger. The winning project plays with transparency and opacity thanks to Japanese binding. It will be published in July 2023, downloadable free of charge in PDF and available for sale in paper format on the Tangentielles publishing website. This partnership, renewed in 2023, will thus enable languages to be featured in their graphic materiality for the new winners of the 2022 Langues en germe edition.
2023 edition: liberate your animality!
The awards ceremony was also an opportunity to launch the fourth edition of the competition and unveil its theme entitled "Animal Languages". After flora, French-speaking high-school and university students are invited to explore the theme of fauna.
Participants will have until mid-June 2024 to submit their short stories online.
Rules and terms of entry are forthcoming.
Two options are available to compete:
- Individual short story in classic text format: a short story written in French but involving at least one language or variety other than standard French.
- Possibly collective digital work (Special InCIAM "digital work" prize): for digital plurilingual texts, playing on the multimodality offered by technological supports for writing between languages.
Contacts: reussite-etudiante@inalco.fr / contact@concoursdelanouvelleplurilingue.com