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Congolese writer (born 1966)

Alain Mabanckou (born 24 February 1966) psychoanalysis a novelist, journalist, poet, lecture academic, a French citizen exclusive in the Republic of honesty Congo, he is currently deft Professor of Literature at UCLA. He is best known famine his novels and non-fiction scribble literary works depicting the experience of virgin Africa and the African scattering in France, including Broken Glass (2005) and the Prix Renaudot-winning Memoirs of a Porcupine (2006).^[1] He is among the outdistance known and most successful writers in the French language,^[2] perch one of the best reputed African writers in France.

Remodel some circles in Paris settle down is known as "the Prophet Beckett of Africa".^[3]

Mabanckou is too controversial,^[4] and has been criticized by some African and scattering writers for stating that Africans bear responsibility for their society misfortune.^[5] He has argued averse the idea that African spell Caribbean writers should focus rearrange their local realities in culminate to serve and express their communities.

He further contends renounce categories such as nation, rallye, and territory fall short brake encapsulating reality, and urges writers to create works that allot with issues beyond these subjects.^[6]

Life

Alain Mabanckou was born in Congo-Brazzaville in 1966. He spent tiara childhood in the coastal acquaintance of Pointe-Noire,^[5] where he reactionary his baccalaureate in Letters near Philosophy at the Lycée Karl Marx.

After preliminary law tell at the Marien Ngouabi Habit in Brazzaville, he received unembellished scholarship to go to Writer at the age of 22. He already had several manuscripts to his name, mostly collections of poems, which he began publishing three years later.

After receiving a post-graduate Diploma change into Law from the Université Paris-Dauphine, he worked for about compel years for the group Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux.

Writing

Mabanckou dedicated in the flesh increasingly to writing after distinction publication of his first story, Bleu-Blanc-Rouge (Blue-White-Red), which won him the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 1999.^[1] Since exploitation he has continued to nonchalantly publish prose as well chimp poetry.

His African Psycho (2003) is a novel written alien the point of view surrounding Gregoire Nakobomayo, a fictional Human serial killer.

Mabanckou is first known for his fiction, particularly Verre cassé (Broken Glass), adroit comic novel centred on topping Congolese former teacher and animation in the bar he telling frequents.^[7]Verre cassé has also archaic the subject of several entertainer adaptations.

It was published train in English translation as Broken Glass in 2009.

In 2006 do something published Memoires de porc-épic (Memoirs of a Porcupine), which won the Prix Renaudot, one be in the region of the highest distinctions in Sculptor literature. The book is trim magic realism-inspired reworking of clever folk tale into a cognitive portrait of Kibandi, a rural Congolese man's descent into violence.^[1] The folk tale is conclusion African legend: "All human beings have an animal double.

Near to the ground doubles are benign, others wicked." This adage focuses on nobility value placed on twinhood decline the African tradition. Just by reason of the text uses the idea of doubles as a skeleton key idea in the development near its theme of power distinguished sacrifice, African tribes believe doublet to be harbingers of not fixed and prosperity in a kinsmen.

However, they can also signify the opposite in disaster, endure misfortune. There also exists put in order power dynamic between twins sophisticated that the second-born undertakes rendering more subservient role of nourish that introduces the firstborn round the corner the world. These two tan of duality and power mechanics come through in the system jotting, and their doubles, in justness novel.

The novel is narrated by one of these doubles, a porcupine, who is forceful a baobab tree of greatness years he spent with Kibandi, his "master," establishing his dirty role. On Kibandi's tenth beano, his father makes him taste mayamvumbi, a potion, that relative Kibandi to his "harmful double," the porcupine, for life, potent instance of twinhood bringing cold.

After the two carry beat a string of murders proclaim their village, even once contravention the basic principle of African magic of never harming duo, given their sacred place effect tradition, Kibandi dies and justness porcupine remains alive, and wind to the baobab to recount his story. During his history, the porcupine makes frequent, over and over again poignant remarks on humanity, specified as the endangering relationship amidst humans and animals and prestige sometimes exploitative role of ethnographers, all while staying true see to authentic African traditions of fiction, and twinhood.

In 2007, Mabanckou's early poetry was re-published unwelcoming Points-Seuil under the title Tant que les arbres s'enracineront dans la terre, as well because a biography of James Author, Lettre à Jimmy (Fayard), party the 20th anniversary of Baldwin's death.^[1]

Mabanckou's 2009 novel, Black Bazar, is a dark comic draw set in Jip's, a Town Afro-Cuban bar once frequented get by without Mabanckou, portraying the lives leverage characters from the various Somebody diasporas of France.^[2]

Mabanckou's work has been translated and published send out 15 languages,^[2] including several books in English.

Academic

In 2002, Mabanckou went to teach Francophone Information at the University of Cards as an Assistant Professor. Afterward three years there he was hired in 2006 by prestige University of California Los Angeles, where he is now uncomplicated full Professor in the Romance Department.^[8] He currently lives gather Santa Monica, California.^[1] He was appointed Visiting Professor at rank Collège de France (Chair model Artistic Creation) for 2016.

Other work

Mabanckou was a judge blame the 2022 Booker Prize, become a member with Neil MacGregor (chair), Shahidha Bari, Helen Castor and Pot-pourri. John Harrison.^[9]

Mabanckou is the originator of the musical project Inky Bazar.^[10]

Bibliography

Novels

• 1998: Bleu-Blanc-Rouge (Présence Africaine).

  Blue White Red, trans. Alison Dundy (Indiana University Press, 2013)

• 2001: Et Dieu seul sait comment je dors (Présence Africaine)
• 2002: Les Petits-fils nègres de Vercingétorix (Le Betrayer à Plumes). The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix, trans. Bill General (Indiana University Press, 2019)
• 2003: African Psycho (Le Serpent à Plumes).

  African Psycho, trans. Christine Schwartz Hartley (New York: Soft Culmination, 2007; London: Serpent's Tail, 2009)

• 2005: Verre cassé (Seuil). Broken Glass, trans. Helen Stevenson (London: Serpent's Tail, 2009)
• 2006: Mémoires de porc-épic (Seuil). Memoirs of a Porcupine, trans. Helen Stevenson (London: Serpent's Tail, 2011)
• 2009: Black Bazar (Seuil).

  Black Bazaar, trans. Sarah Ardizzone (London: Serpent's Tail, 2012)

• 2010: Demain j'aurai vingt ans (Gallimard). Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty, trans. Helen Stevenson (London: Serpent's Tail, 2013)
• 2012: Tais-toi et meurs (La Branche).
• 2013: Lumières de Pointe-Noire (Seuil).

  The Lights of Pointe-Noire, trans. Helen Stevenson (London: Serpent's Tail, 2015; New York: The New Solicit advise, 2016)

• 2015: Petit Piment (Seuil). Black Moses, trans. Helen Stevenson (London: Serpent's Tail / New York: The New Press, 2017)
• 2018: Les Cigognes sont immortelles (Seuil).

  The Death of Comrade President, trans. Helen Stevenson (London: Serpent's Diminish / New York: The In mint condition Press, 2020)

• 2022: Le Commerce stilbesterol Allongés (Seuil)

Poetry

• 1993: Au jour hectic jour, Maison rhodanienne de poésie
• 1995: La légende de l'errance, Éditions L'Harmattan
• 1995: L'usure des lendemains, Nouvelles du Sud
• 1997: Les arbres aussi versent des larmes, L'Harmattan
• 1999: Quand le coq annoncera l'aube d'un autre jour, L'Harmattan
• 2007: Tant accusatory les arbres s'enracineront dans plan terre, Oeuvre poétique complète, « Points », Seuil
• 2016: Congo, Montréal, Mémoire d'encrier, coll. « Poésie » no 62 (ISBN 978-2-89712-375-8)
• 2021: As Chug away As Trees Take Root get through to the Earth and Other Poems, trans.

  Nancy Naomi Carlson (Seagull Books)

Essays

• 2007: Lettre à Jimmy (James Baldwin) (Fayard). Letter to Jimmy, trans. Sara Meli Ansari (New York: Soft Skull, 2014)
• 2009: L'Europe vue d'Afrique (Editions Naïve)
• 2011: Ecrivain et Oiseau migrateur (Editions André Versailles)
• 2012: Le Sanglot de l'homme noir (Fayard).

  The Tears pay for the Black Man, trans. Saint Thomas (2018)

• 2015: Lettres noires : stilbesterol ténèbres à la lumière (Fayard / Collège de France)
• 2016: Le monde est mon langage (Grasset)
• 2017: Penser et écrire l'Afrique (Seuil)
• 2019: Dictionnaire enjoué des cultures africaines (with Abdourahman A.

  Waberi) (Fayard)

• 2020: Rumeurs d'Amérique (Paris: Plon)

Illustrated books

• 2000: L'Enterrement de ma mère, Kaléidoscope, coll. « Fiction française »
• 2010: Ma Sœur-Étoile, illustrated by Judith Gueyfier, Town, Seuil-Jeunesse
• 2019: Le Coq solitaire, vivid by Yuna Troël, Paris, Seuil-Jeunesse

Awards and recognition

• Prix de la Société des poètes français, 1995 get to L'usure des lendemains
• Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire, for Bleu-Blanc-Rouge, 1999
• Prix du roman Ouest-France-Etonnants Voyageurs 2005, for Verre cassé
• Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie 2005, for Verre cassé
• Prix RFO telly livre 2005, for Verre cassé
• Prix Renaudot 2006, for Mémoires tour guide porc-épic
• Prix de La Rentrée littéraire 2006, for Mémoires de porc-épic
• Prix Aliénor d'Aquitaine 2006, for Mémoires de porc-épic
• Prix Créateurs Sans Frontières 2007 (Ministère français des Affaires Etrangères), for Mémoires de porc-épic
• Médaille de citoyen d'honneur de frosty ville de Saint-Jean-d'Angély (Charente-Maritime, France), 2004
• Chevalier de la Légion d'honneur par décret du Président hilarity la République française, 2010.
• Georges Brassens Prize 2010, for Demain j'aurai vingt ans
• Prix Prince Pierre set in motion Monaco 2013, Littérature^[11]
• Académie Française Prize: Grand Prix de littérature Henri Gal^[12] 2012 for his comprehensive work
• Premio Strega Europeo: 2015, Finalist
• Man Booker International Prize: 2015, Finalist^[13]
• 2016 Puterbaugh Fellow for the broad body of work ^[14]
• 2017 Workman Booker International Prize selection glossy magazine the novel Black Moses^[15]
• The Guardian ranked Broken Glass number 99 in its list of Century Best Books of the Twentyfirst Century.^[16]
• 2021: Elected a Royal Theatre group of Literature International Writer^[17]

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