Yanick Lahens’ Passagères de nuit Makes the First Round of 2025 Goncourt

The Haitian writer Yanick Lahens was selected this Wednesday, September 3, for the first round of the 2025 Prix Goncourt with her novel Passagères de nuit. This novel, published last August by Sabine Wespieser Editions in France, is among the 15 works that caught the jury’s attention for the first of four phases of this prestigious competition.

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03 Sep 2025 — Lecture : 3 min.

Contacted by Le Nouvelliste, Yanick Lahens expressed herself in these terms: “I am the first to be surprised,” confided the author, still in shock at her selection. “It is a book I was very unsure about,” she admitted, “written in Haiti under very difficult conditions, on a subject far removed from France, and published by a small publishing house.” “The news is obviously pleasing,” added the winner of the 2014 Prix Femina for her novel Bain de lune. Asked about the humility t

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