Rhoddy Attilus, Laureate of the Henri Deschamps Literary Prize 2014

The Lucienne Deschamps Foundation and the Jury of the Henri Deschamps Literary Prize are extremely pleased to announce to the general public, to Haitian literature enthusiasts and to all the candidate writers that the winning work of the he 2014 edition of the Deschamps Prize is “KÈKÈT AK JANMARI”, the novel by author Rhoddy ATTILUS, from Cap-Haitien, to whom the prize was awarded by a majority of 4 votes to 3.

This novel written in Creole attracted the attention of the Jury by the novelty of its language, which handles both richness and sobriety, humor and realism, and great finesse in the psychological treatment of the characters. In his novel, the author, Rhoddy Attilus, presents a slice of Capoise life and a table of the relationships between urban and rural life in a far North that he offers to readers in all its complexity, its charms and its features. contradictions

The Jury also decided to give a special mention to the finalist novel "Naïve Requiem for Honorine" by author Rousseau BLAISE (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France) for its mastery of the romantic genre and its endearing writing.

For this 2014 edition, the Lucienne Deschamps Foundation received a total of 56 manuscripts. Once again, the members of the Jury of the Henri Deschamps Literary Prize had to look at texts of a very high quality. Four (4) manuscripts were in the running for the winning work. It is :

– Requiem naïf pour Honorine:

Auteur : Rousseau Blaise, Issy-les-Moulineaux (France)

– Le Cimetière des miraculés :

Auteur : Jean Néhémy Pierre, Saint-Denis (France) 

– Journal d’un porté disparu :

Auteur : Jean David Mezy, Montréal

– L’amour est bleu :

Auteure : Farah Angela Jean, Pétionville

Fait à Pétionville, le 27 octobre 2014

Pour le jury du Prix Littéraire Henri Deschamps

Kettly Mars, Présidente et

Marie Laurence Jocelyn Lassègue, Secrétaire du Prix

André Vilaire Chéry, membre

Rodney Saint-Éloi, membre

Françoise Beaulieu Thybulle, membre

Évelyne Trouillot, membre

Gary Victor, membre

Évains Wêche, membre – lauréat 2013