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Haiti - Literature: Kettly Mars, Prix Ivoire of African Literature 2015 25/11/2015 10:45:20 Seven books were in the running :
The jury, chaired by writer Werewere-Liking (Prix Noma 2005), awarded the Prix Ivoire to Kettly Mars, a author whose book, « carried by a light writing, catchy, sets vis-à-vis the love of a people for his land deconstructed by an earthquake and inexhaustible love of a family for a son deconstructed by the disease. Uppercase energies deployed to refloating the injured earth and man defeated by schizophrenia, make the winning work a great song of the reappropriation of self and of the rebuilding of the inner worlds. The jury was sensitive to the polyphonic singing of this work to the fragmented narrative, placing piecemeal. The reader is found, not in front of a novel, but before a huge figurative painting made to several hands, with the temperament and energy of each of the characters summoned by author ». On receiving the Prix, Kettly Mars has moved declare « Dear friends, I am very happy to be here and moved by the honor you have done me by awarding me the Prix Ivoire of African Francophone Literature of Expression. Thank you toc makes me enter the Africa through the front door. I had the joy of receiving several literary awards in my writing career, but the award of this Prix Ivoire touches me in a special way. The jury, with the requirement and rigor that characterize their work, enjoyed my work and have valued it [...] This opening of the Prix Ivoire to the diaspora scattered around the world, following the regulations of African Unity, is an outstretched hand, a generous gesture and humanist that ennobles its promoters and for which I thank them on behalf of this sixth region. But I hasten to add that the merit of this distinction is not to my person only. Many supported me and helped me build. I can not mention all of them. I just mention my parents, my family, known and unknown friends who have their trust in me [...] Let them receive my gratitude and friendship ». HL/ HaitiLibre
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