Creation of the Inalco Student Prize for Manga in partnership with the Guimet Museum
The winning title will be announced on June 4, 2025 at an awards ceremony held at the Musée Guimet, and will receive an endowment of 2,500 euros from the museum.
The Émile Guimet Prize for Asian Literature
This prize, created to highlight the richness and diversity of Asian literature translated into French, enters its eighth edition with a selection of outstanding works. Launched by the musée Guimet in 2017, it distinguishes, under the presidency of Laure Adler, the original work of an author from Asia, recently translated and published in France. It aims to promote contemporary Asian literature and encourage cultural exchanges between Asia and France. Since 2024, in addition to the "Novel" category created in 2017, the Prix Émile Guimet de littérature asiatique also crowns a work in the "Comics" category.
Shortlisted books in the Manga category
- "Land, vol. 1 ", Kazumi Yamashita, Éd. Mangetsu
- " The bike store salesman, vol. 6 ", Arare Matsumishi, Éd. Le lézard noir
- " Peleliu Gaiden, vol. 1", Kazuyoshi Takeda, Éd. Vega Dupuis
- " No manga no life, vol. 1", Mochizuki Minetaro, Éd. Le lézard noir
- " The life of Otama", Keiko Ichiguchi and Andrea Accardi, Éd. Kana
- " Asadora, vol. 8", Naoki Urasawa, Éd. Kana
- " The green planet, vol. 2", Keigo Shinzô, Éd. Le lézard noir
- " Tokyo, these days, vol. 1", Taiyô Matsumoto, Éd. Kana
The 2025 jury of the Inalco Student Prize for Manga
The jury is made up of five students from Inalco's Japanese Studies department.
As a Master 1 student in Japanese Studies at Inalco, Rika Akiyama devotes her research to onomatopoeia in manga. Born in France, she lived in Paris until the age of 11, before moving to Japan for family reasons. Wishing to evolve in the manga world as a bilingual, she decided to pursue studies in publishing after obtaining a Bachelor's degree in French literature in Japan. After her first year of a Master's degree in publishing at the Sorbonne, she turned to French-Japanese translation, a field that sparked her interest during an internship at a publishing house specializing in Japanese literature. A manga enthusiast since childhood, she reads all genres, but has a preference for shōnen, which offer readers immersion in unreal, fascinating worlds.
After a scientific baccalaureate, Adrien Carol turned to Japanese studies at Inalco, where he has been for the past 3 years. His youth was marked by Franco-Belgian comic strips, and then by manga, the latter accompanying his choice of academic orientation. Adrien has a passion for travel, as well as for Japanese theater and cinema. A musician, he plays the slide trombone.
Master's student in LLCER-Japanese at Inalco, Zoé Dupré draws her inspiration from her passion for manga. After reading her first manga and taking her first trip to Japan at the age of six, she started Japanese when she entered secondary school, with the idea of working, later, in the manga industry in France. She did her first internship in 3rd grade at the manga publishing house Doki Doki, and in 2020, she enrolled in the Japanese degree program at Inalco. She then spends a year in Japan as part of a gap year, and returns in 2024 to continue her Master's degree. She is currently working on a thesis on the representation of gender identity in the manga series Fullmetal Alchemist.
Rym-Kahina Bourki is a visual artist with a research degree in visual arts and art sciences from the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Currently in her third year of Japanese Studies at Inalco, she plans to co-direct a thesis between her two fields of study. Her work as a visual artist deals with the infra-thin and the universality of the imperceptible, but she has also been streaming on Twitch for several years, where she talks about her great passion for the lore of fictional universes. She owes her entire career path to her passion for manga, a field in which she would like to work one day as a proofreader.
After a federal certificate in visual communication in Switzerland and a semester at an international language school in Tokyo, Grégoire Savajols enters Inalco in September 2024 in the Japanese degree program. Following a passion for manga, he takes part in the Inalco student manga jury the same year. In pursuit of a position in a specialized newspaper, he has already written about the history of manga, working conditions in video games and journalistic photography during the Great Depression. A lover of science fiction and fantasy, he writes a little fiction in his spare time. Romances, dramas, historical accounts or pop culture articles, he reads everything and with great pleasure.