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The Inalco Multilingual Short Story Competition 2025 announces its winners
Le palmarès 2025
Three grand prizes were awarded:
- 1st prize: Silans by Marion Michel - 500 euros
- 2nd prize: Abandon du phonème by Iris-Aléa Reinald - 200 euros
- 3rd prize: Babel et la malédictions des langues by Martin Lebigre - 100 euros
Honorary prize awarded by Lilyana Petrova, patron of the InCIAM prize: Mes bouts de langue by Justine Volff.
Digital and collaborative work to be consulted online.
The eleven winners below will be invited to take part in a writing workshop and will have their short story published in the collective work Langues en folie, to be published in 2026 by éditions Tangentielles :
- Silans, Marion Michel
- Abandon du phonème, Iris-Aléa Reinald
- Babel et la malédictions des langues, Martin Lebigre
- Mes bouts de langue, Justine Volff
- La pluie du Guilan, Sarah Kondory
- Gaddé Waddé, Nagina Mamuzai
- Jezik bez granice, Hanaa Kucevic
- Five and Thursday on you, Auns Darouaz-Khechine
- Quatro Dias, Noah Le Sauce
- Le petit misérable, Obed-Michael Mwilambwe
- Person Age, Savannah Dekker
Winners honored at awards ceremony
The winners were announced at the awards ceremony on May 12, 2025, in the presence of the winning students and the competition's two godmothers: author Maryam Madjidi and artist-researcher Lilyana Petrova. During a roundtable discussion, the young authors were able to engage in dialogue with jury member Marielle Anselmo (Inalco) and the two godmothers of the 2025 edition.
The first three winners, in association with actress Pauline Darcel, presented a reading-performance of excerpts from their short stories.
The event concluded with a participatory multilingual writing experience with the audience led by Florian Targa (REVE service - Inalco).
View the replay of the awards ceremony.
École Estienne joins the competition for the third year
Editions Tangentielles and Inalco have established a partnership with the "Graphic Design and Typography" course at the École supérieure des arts et industries graphiques (École Estienne). The students proposed several creative editorial layout projects for the publication of the 2024 collection, Langues animales. The collectively developed project will be published in September 2025. Information to be found on the Tangentielles publishing website.
Edition 2026: Networked languages
The awards ceremony was also an opportunity to launch the sixth edition of the competition and unveil its theme, entitled "Networked Languages".
Participants will have until March 2026 to submit their short story online.
Rules and terms of entry are forthcoming.
Two options are available to compete:
- Individual short story in classic text format: a short story written in French but involving at least one language or variety other than standard French.
- Possibly collective digital work (Prix spécial InCIAM "écriture numérique"): for multilingual digital texts, playing on the multimodality offered by technological media to write between languages.