Literary Prize
Principle
Under the aegis of the Regional Council of Guadeloupe and upon the initiative of its President, Mr. Victorin Lurel, Member of the French Parliament for Guadeloupe, the Association of Caribbean Writers was created in November 2008, on the occasion of its first Congress. This Congress gave rise to the creation of a literary Grand Prize aimed at rewarding and paying tribute to a Caribbean writer or to an outstanding work from our common French, English, Spanish or Dutch literary fields.
To give concrete expression to this project without further delay, the organization of the first edition of this Grand Prize was proposed for the second edition of the Congress, in April 2011, under the provisional designation of “Regional Council of Guadeloupe Grand Prize for Caribbean Literature”. This initial edition is therefore meant to foreshadow the Grand Prize for literature of the Association of Caribbean Writers, which came out of the first Congress, and which will be bestowed at the third Congress in 2013. The “Regional Council of Guadeloupe Grand Prize for Caribbean Literature” will then become the “Association of Caribbean Writers Grand Prize for Literature”.
Members of the jury
1.1. Members of the jury in alphabetical order
- BATRAVILLE Dominique (Haïti)
- BLANCO Delia (The Dominican Republic)
- DRACIUS Suzanne (Martinique)
- RODRIGUEZ Emilio Jorge (Cuba)
- TOUMSON Roger (Guadeloupe)
- WILSON Elisabeth (Trinidad and Tobago)
1.2. 2.2. President of the jury
TOUMSON (Roger), President of the Association of Caribbean Writers.
Regulations
1.1. Choice of prize-winning author and work
- An author who clearly demonstrates an open Caribbeaness – tribute to a distinguished servant of fine Caribbean literature.
- A work in which differences are transcended and the logics, languages and imaginative worlds of a common Caribbean identity are explored.
1.2. Role of the jury
The jury receives applications, considers them and classes them.
1.3. 2.5. Submission of applications
Applications will be sent to the President of the jury at the following address: Grand Prix Littéraire du Conseil Régional de la Guadeloupe, Année 2011, Direction de la culture et de la formation artistique, Région Guadeloupe Avenue Paul Lacavé 97100 Basse-Terre Guadeloupe, FWI.
Applications will be sent by the authors themselves or by their publishers, at a date no later than march 1st , 2011.
Applications must include:
• the author’s Curriculum Vitae,
• a short presentation of his/her body of works,
• a complete list of his/her works, with publishing references for each work,
• a list of the his/her works translated into French, if such is the case,
• a list of his/her works translated into any language besides French, if such is the case.
The application must include a copy of the work that the author considers to be most representative of his/her creative activity, in terms of both theme and form. Copies may be sent in the original language or in a translated version.
1.4. 2.6. Prize money
The Regional Council of Guadeloupe Grand Prize for Caribbean Literature is endowed with a a financial envelope.