Blaise Ndala is a Canadian writer. He is most noted for his novel ''Sans capote ni kalachnikov'', which won the 2019 edition of ''

Le Combat des livres ''Le Combat des livres'' is an annual "battle of the books" competition organized and broadcast by Ici Radio-Canada Première in Canada. A French edition of the ''Canada Reads'' competition, the program was launched in 2004. It aired annually from ...

''."Marie-Maude Denis et Sans capote ni kalachnikov remportent le Combat national des livres 2019"
Ici Radio-Canada, May 10, 2019. Originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ndala emigrated to Canada in 2007 and works as a lawyer in

Ottawa Ottawa (, ; Canadian French: ) is the capital city of Canada. It is located at the confluence of the Ottawa River and the Rideau River in the southern portion of the province of Ontario. Ottawa borders Gatineau, Quebec, and forms the core ...

. His debut novel, ''J'irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor'', was published in 2014; it won the

Ottawa Book Award Ottawa Book Award and Prix du livre d'Ottawa is a Canadian literary award presented by the City of Ottawa to the best English and French language books written in the previous year by a living author residing in Ottawa.

for French fiction, and was a finalist for the

Trillium Award The Trillium Book Award (french: Prix littéraire Trillium or ''Prix Trillium'') is an annual literary award presented to writers in Ontario, Canada. It is administered by Ontario Creates, a Crown agency of the Government of Ontario, which is ove ...

."Blaise Ndala, auteur à Ottawa"
Ici Radio-Canada, February 27, 2019. The novel was subsequently optioned for a film adaptation by director Rachid Bouchareb. ''Sans capote ni kalachnikov'' was published in 2017,"Le regard lucide de Blaise Ndala sur l’instrumentalisation de l’horreur"
'' Le Devoir'', February 18, 2017. and was a finalist for the Trillium Award and the

Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire The Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire (one of the major literary prizes of Black Africa for Francophone Literature) is a literary prize presented every year by the ADELF, the Association of French Language Writers for a French original text ...

. In ''Le Combat des livres'', the novel was defended by journalist

Marie-Maude Denis Marie-Maude Denis (born in Sudbury, Ontario) is an investigative journalist and announcer working for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Montreal. Since 2008, she has been working on the public affairs program '' Enquête'', and in September ...

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