Les Journées de Lyon organizes the most important playwriting competition in the French-speaking world. For this edition, 350 texts were received, read, reread, annotated and hotly discussed. The five prize-winning texts were edited and voted on. Two of them, included Cathédrale des cochons by Jean d'Amérique, are to be discovered at NTH8.
In a Haitian prison, after the riots in Port-au-Prince, an imprisoned poet shouts out his pain, his humiliations, his loneliness to the one he loves and from whom he is separated ; "The poetic word is the first weapon of existence," says the author.
Jean D'Amérique is a Haitian poet and playwright. He leads writing workshops, contributes to several literary magazines and is the author of several plays, often identified by devices dedicated to contemporary dramatic writing. In 2019, living between Paris and Brussels, Jean D'Amérique, with the Loque Urbaine collective, created Transe Poétique, an international festival based in Port-au-Prince that promotes poetry through different forms of expression.
Jean D'Amérique (Haiti) is a recipient of the Cité internationale des arts TRAME residency program