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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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Jean-Luc Marty, journaliste, a été pendant longtemps directeur éditorial et rédacteur en chef de Geo, le fameux magazine de voyages et reportages photographiques. Cette lourde charge n’a jamais occulté sa casquette d’écrivain – et on se souviendra de son roman Rumba couronné en 2008 par le prix Populiste, distinction que reçurent jadis Bernard Clavel et Jean-Paul Sartre. Si avant l’auteur s’ef... read more »

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Books by Alain Mabanckou

Average rating: 3.55 · 324 ratings · 68 reviews · 18 distinct works

	African Psycho by Alain Mabanckou, Christine Schwartz Hartley (Translator) 3.34 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Verre Cassé 3.73 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2005 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Mémoires De Porc épic 3.64 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 2006 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Black Bazar 3.80 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Bleu, Blanc, Rouge: Roman 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1998	My rating:
	Demain J'aurai Vingt Ans: Roman 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Les Petits Fils Nègres De Vercingétorix: Roman 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Lettre à Jimmy 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:
	Le sanglot de l'homme noir 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Memoirs of a Porcupine 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2012	My rating:

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