As part of the centenary of the birth of Jacques Stephen Alexis (born April 22, 1922), "Ayiti bèl", the Knowledge and Freedom Foundation (FOKAL), the International Center for Haitian, Caribbean and Afro-Canadian Documentation and Information (CIDIHCA) and the Haitian Society of History, Geography and Geology, are launching a text contest to mark the thinking of our great world-famous writer and encourage the discovery and reading of his works.

This competition is open to the general population in Haiti and more particularly to young people, including students of the new secondary 3-NS 3 (rheto) and new secondary-NS 4 (philo).

No prior registration or fees are required.

Candidates must compete with a single unpublished text, not yet published or in the process of being published, on one of the following three subjects:

Subject 1 :

How can Jacques Stéphen Alexis, through his life and/or his work, help us to experience or understand what Haiti has become today ?

Subject 2 :

Why should the novels and other stories of Jacques Stéphen Alexis constitute fundamental reading for secondary school students in Haiti ?

Subject 3 :

Show how Jacques Stéphen Alexis succeeded in reconciling in his work a strong indigenist, nationalist tendency with a universalist humanism.

The works will be received, only by email on: AyitiBel@AyitiBel.org no later than June 22, 2022 inclusive.

Download the competition criteria and conditions (PDF) : https://fokal.org/images/nouvel_fokal/2022/Avril_2022/RE%CC%80GLEMENTS_-_APPEL_A%CC%80_LA_PENSE%CC%81E.pdf

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