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Alain Mabanckou

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Born: February 23 1966

Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo-Brazzaville . He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA, having previously spent four years at the University of Michigan. Mabanckou 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 coming century. His most recent book is African Psycho.

Alain Mabanckou

3.6/5 ( ratings)

Born: February 23 1966

Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo-Brazzaville . He currently resides in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA, having previously spent four years at the University of Michigan. Mabanckou 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 coming century. His most recent book is African Psycho.

Books from Alain Mabanckou

African Psycho

3.3/5 ( ratings)

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The Granta Book of the African Short Story

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The Lights of Pointe-Noire

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3.7/5 ( ratings)

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4.5/5 ( ratings)

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3.6/5 ( ratings)

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3.3/5 ( ratings)

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3.6/5 ( ratings)

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