Douna Loup

Douna Loup (born 1982 in Geneva ) is a Swiss francophone writer.

Life

Douna Loup is a child of a family of puppeteers . She grew up in the Drôme department in France. When she was eighteen she did a social service in Madagascar for a few months . She married and lived near Nantes and since 2013 in French-speaking Switzerland again . Loup published her first book Mopaya in 2010 with interviews with the Congolese immigrant Gabriel Nganga Nseka, and in the same year her first novel L'Embrasure , which immediately won several awards. In 2011 Loup received, among other things, a Schiller Prize .

Works

• Mopaya: Récit d'une traversée du Congo à la Suisse, avec Gabriel Nganga Nseka . Paris: L'Harmattan, 2010, ISBN 978-2-296-11829-4
• L'Embrasure . Paris: Mercure de France, 2010 ISBN 978-2-7152-3135-1 . Prix ​​Senghor , 2011
  • The sister woman: Roman . Translation by Peter Burri. Basel: Lenos, 2017 ISBN 978-3-85787-425-3
• Les Lignes de ta paume , Paris: Mercure de France, 2012 ISBN 978-2-7152-3282-2
• L'Oragé . Paris: Mercure de France, 2015 ISBN 978-2-7152-4130-5
• Ventrosoleil . Play. Les Sans-Editions, 2014. Performed at Theater Am Stram Gram, Geneva.
• Mon chien-dieu . Play. Les solitaires intempestifs, 2016

Web links

• Literature by and about Douna Loup in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Douna Loup in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Douna Loup , at Solothurn Literature Days , 2012
• Douna Loup , at culturactif
• Douna Loup , at Mercure de France
• The sister woman , publisher's announcement at Lenos