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iciHaiti - Prix Goncourt 2025 : Haitian writer Yanick Lahens in the first selection 04/09/2025 10:06:25
List of shortlisted candidates for the 2025 Prix Goncourt (September 2025) : Nathacha Appanah : "La Nuit au cœur" (Gallimard) Emmanuel Carrère : "Kolkhoze" (P.O.L) David Deneufgermain : "L’Adieu au visage" (Marchialy) David Diop : "Où s’adosse le ciel" (Julliard) Ghislaine Dunant : "Un amour infini" (Albin Michel) Paul Gasnier : "La Collision" (Gallimard) Yanick Lahens : "Passagères de nuit" (Sabine Wespieser) Caroline Lamarche : "Le Bel Obscur" (Seuil) Hélène Laurain : "Tambora" (Verdier) Charif Majdalani : "Le Nom des rois" (Stock) Laurent Mauvignier : "La Maison vide" (Minuit) Alfred de Montesquiou : "Le Crépuscule des hommes" (Robert Laffont) Guillaume Poix : "Perpétuité" (Verticales) Maria Pourchet : "Tressaillir" (Stock) David Thomas : "Un frère" (L’Olivier) Summary of "Passagères de nuit" : In this new novel, as if plucked from the chaos of her daily life in Port-au-Prince, Yanick Lahens pays homage of hope and resilience to the lineage of women from which she descends. The first of these, Élizabeth Dubreuil, was born around 1820 in New Orleans. Her grandmother, who arrived from Haiti at the beginning of the century in the wake of the plantation owner who had eventually freed her, never wanted to depend on a man again. Inspired by this powerful example, young Élisabeth rebels in turn against the predatory desires of a friend of her father. She must flee the city, becoming a "Passagères de nuit" (night passengers) on a ship bound for Port-au-Prince. We learn what will become of her when her life intersects with that of Régina, another key figure in this novel of origins. Born poor among the poor in a hamlet in the south of the island of Haiti, Regina also forced fate : nothing determined her to become the mistress of one of the generals who arrived as liberators in Port-au-Prince in 1867. It is to "my general, my lover, my man" that she addresses the amorous monologue in which she evokes her path to emancipation : the petty cruelty of the masters she fled finds its counterpoint in the outstretched hands of these women who taught her to oppose the blows of fate with silent tenacity. Elizabeth and Regina inherited this silent tenacity from their distant ancestors, those "Passagères de nuit" (night passengers) of the slave ships, whose terrifying reality Yanick Lahens evokes here, just as it plunges us—and this is not the least of the qualities of this great book—into the convulsions of Haitian history. When the two heroines meet, in a scene of rare emotion, we, the readers, will understand that history is not written only with the victors, but in the beauty of gestures, glances, and unspoken mysteries, which quietly point the way to a resistance that commands admiration. IH/ iciHaiti
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