Alain Mabanckou





Alain Mabanckou

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February 24, 1966 in Pointe-Noire, Congo


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Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo-Brazzaville (French Congo). He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA, having previously spent four years at the University of MichiganMabanckou will be a Fellow in the Humanities Council at Princeton University in 2007-2008. One of Francophone Africa's most prolific contemporary writers, he is the author of six volumes of poetry and six novels. He received the Sub-Saharan Africa Literary Prize in 1999 for his first novel, Blue-White-Red, the Prize of the Five Francophone Continents for Broken Glass, and the Prix Renaudot in 2006 for Memoirs of a Porcupine. He was selected by the French publishing trade journal Lire as one of the fifty writers to watch out for in the c...more


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Mémoires De Porc épic
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Black Bazar
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Bleu, Blanc, Rouge: Roman
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Lettre à Jimmy
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Le sanglot de l'homme noir
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Memoirs of a Porcupine
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