Alain Mabanckou

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Alain Mabanckou at the Frankfurt Book Fair 2017

Alain Mabanckou (born February 24, 1966 in Pointe-Noire , Republic of the Congo ) is a Congolese writer who publishes in French.

life and work

Alain Mabanckou spent his childhood and school days in his native city. After graduating from high school, he began studying law in Brazzaville . From 1989 to 1993 he was able to study commercial law in Paris with a grant. After obtaining his Diplôme d'études approfondies in law from the Université de Paris-Dauphine, he worked for ten years as a legal advisor in the French group Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux . In 2002 he became a lecturer in Francophone Literature at the University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, and in 2007 he became a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Today he lives in Santa Monica , California.

In the 1990s he published several volumes of poetry and short stories for French publishers. His debut novel Bleu-Blanc-Rouge was awarded the Grand Prix littéraire de l'Afrique noire in 1998. Other novels followed such as Et Dieu seul sait comment je dors (2001), Les Petit-Fils nègres de Vercingétorix (2002), African Psycho (2003) and Memoires de porc-epic (2006), for which he won several literary prizes , including the Prix ​​Renaudot . In 2009 Black Bazar was published , his first novel to be translated into German.

Works

Novels and short stories

  • Bleu-Blanc-Rouge . 1998.
  • Et Dieu seul sait comment je dors . 2001.
  • Les Petits-fils nègres de Vercingétorix . 2002.
  • African Psycho . 2003.
    • English-language edition, translation Christine Schwartz Hartley: African Psycho . Soft Skull Press, Brooklyn 2007 ISBN 978-1-933368-50-4 .
  • Verre Cassé . 2005.
    • Translation Holger Fock and Sabine Müller: Broken Glass . Novel. Liebeskind, Munich 2013 ISBN 978-3-95438-006-0
  • Mémoires de porc-épic . 2006.
    • Translation Holger Fock and Sabine Müller: Porcupine Memoirs . Liebeskind, Munich 2011 ISBN 978-3-935890-81-6 .
  • Black Bazaar . 2009.
  • Demain j'aurai vingt ans . 2010.
    • Translation Holger Fock and Sabine Müller: I'll be twenty tomorrow . Liebeskind, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-95438-040-4 .
  • Tais-toi et meurs . Ed. de La Branche, Coll. Vendredi 13, 2012
  • Lumières de Pointe-Noire . Seuil, 2013.
    • Translation Holger Fock and Sabine Müller: The lights of Pointe-Noire. Liebeskind, Munich 2017, ISBN 978-3-95438-079-4 .
  • Petit allspice . Seuil, Paris 2015.
    • Petit allspice. Roman, from the French by Holger Fock and Sabine Müller. Liebeskind, Munich 2019, 240 pages, ISBN 978-3-95438-108-1 .
  • Les cigognes sont immortelles . Seuil, Paris 2018.

Volumes of poetry

  • Au jour le jour , 1993
  • La légende de l'errance , 1995
  • L'usure des lendemains , 1995
  • Les arbres aussi versent des larmes , 1997
  • Quand le coq annoncera l'aube d'un autre jour ... , 1999
  • Tant que les arbres s'enracineront dans la terre , Œuvre poétique complète, 2007
  • Congo , Montréal 2016, Mémoire d'encrier, coll. "Poésie" no 62 ( ISBN 978-2-89712-375-8 )

Essays

Web links

Commons : Alain Mabanckou  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ biography (French). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on August 29, 2011 ; Retrieved August 24, 2011 (French).
  2. ^ Marabout page, author portraits, Alain Mabanckou. Retrieved August 24, 2011 .
  3. ↑ See Karimi, Kian-Harald: "African passages between yesterday and today: On the trail of urban life from Mongo Betis 'La ville cruelle' to Alain Mabanckous 'Black Bazar'", in: Ursula Hennigfeld (Ed.) Not only Paris . Metropolitan and urban spaces in contemporary French-language literature, Bielefeld (transcript) 2012, ISBN 978-3-8376-1750-4 , Lettre series, pp. 125–152 or Karimi, Kian-Harald: “'Paris Calling: Common and Uncommon Experiences of Latin American and African Diasporas' “ in: Call - Irish Journal for Culture, Arts, Literature and Language (Ed. Sascha Harris et al.) Dublin Vol 1. 2016
  4. ↑ Busch or not Busch, that is the question , review by Sophie Sumburane, CulturMag, March 6, 2013, accessed March 6, 2013
  5. ^ Jeannette Villachica: White and Black. Alain Mabanckou and his novel «Black Bazar». NZZ , May 6, 2010, accessed on August 24, 2011 .
  6. ^ Writer Alain Mabanckou On political inconsistencies in the Congo , review by Birgit Koß, Deutschlandradio Kultur , February 24, 2015, accessed February 24, 2015
  7. ↑ Birgit Koß: "A black Moses flees from the orphanage" , review on deutschlandfunkkultur.de from September 2, 2019, accessed on the same date
personal data
SURNAME Mabanckou, Alain
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Congolese writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Pointe-Noire , Republic of the Congo