[Many thanks to Peter Jordens for bringing this item to our attention.] In Could, Haitian author Emmelie Prophète received the 2022 Carbet de Lycéens award for her novel Les villages de Dieu. [The cover art features “Chère Deborah” by Mallory Lowe Mpoka.]
Mémoire d’encrier presents this description: “Entrenched in cities that take their title from biblical legends–Divine Energy, Bethlehem–roving gangs loot, rape, and homicide with full impunity. Celia, a teen, tries to outlive, generally by prostituting herself and generally by chronicling the ladies of town on social networks, the place she turns into an influencer. Les villages de Dieu speaks of the collapse and banality of evil on this metropolis of Port-au-Prince delivered to its demons.”
Juhakenson Blaise (Haitian Occasions) experiences:
Haitian novelist Emmelie Prophète has received the 2022 Carbet de Lycéens, a global prize awarded in Guadeloupe, for her novel “The Villages of God.”
“I’m actually blissful and glad,” Prophète, who can be the minister of Tradition and of Communication, informed Le Nouvelliste. “I share this pleasure with all Haitians who reside in Caribbean islands, and are very blissful and happy with this nice information that got here within the midst of loads of dangerous information that we hear in our nation.”
“The Villages of God” tells the story of a younger lady named Célia who lives within the thick of armed gangs, kidnapping and prostitution in Port-au-Prince.
The worldwide award from Guadeloupe is the third by a French-speaking nation that Prophète has acquired because the 2020 novel was printed. Prophète received the Ivory Prize for African Literature of Francophone Expression and the Fetkann Maryse Condé prize in 2021.
Guadeloupe’s Carbet of Excessive Schoolers was created in 1999 to advertise Caribbean literature in excessive colleges and encourage college students to be taught Caribbean historical past. Three different Haitian writers have received the Carbet of Excessive Schoolers award through the years: Dany Laferrière in 2001, Edwidge Danticat in 2010, Gisèle Pineau in 2011 and Néhémy Pierre-Dahomey in 2018.
For the unique article, see https://haitiantimes.com/2022/05/26/haitian-culture-minister-emmelie-prophete-wins-guadeloupean-prize-for-novel
Additionally see: http://memoiredencrier.com/les-villages-de-dieu and « La romancière haïtienne Emmelie Prophète, prix Carbet des Lycéens 2022, » Guadeloupe la 1ère, 6 avril 2022
https://la1ere.francetvinfo.fr/guadeloupe/la-romanciere-haitienne-emmelie-prophete-prix-carbet-des-lyceens-2022-1269992.html