Ma sœur-étoile
2010
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"J'ai écrit cette histoire de mon enfance parce que, même devenu adulte, je suis resté cet enfant qui court après sa Sœur-Etoile. Et c'est peut-être aussi pour cela que je suis devenu un écrivain." Alain Mabanckou.
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Alain Mabanckou
Author · 27 books
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 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.
