Tierno Monénembo
Tierno Monénembo (* 1947 in Guinea ) is a Guinean writer who lives in France .
Tierno Monénembo fled from Ahmed Sékou Touré's regime to Senegal in 1969 . Then he studied in the Ivory Coast . In 1973 he emigrated to France, where he received French citizenship.
reception
The first novel that the author also translated into German was "Payday in Abidjan", written in 1993. Here Monénembo addresses student life in the capital of Ivory Coast at the beginning of the 1970s, or better said, the exile situation of Guinean students who have broken away from their home country due to the extreme political situation and the pulsating metropolis - between locals and migrant workers from Burkina Faso , Nigerian traders and craftspeople from Mali - face uprooted.
Honors
- 2008 Prix Renaudot for the novel Le roi de Kahel .
Works (selection)
- Novels
- Cinema. Roman ("Cinéma"). Peter Hammer Verlag , Wuppertal 1999 ISBN 3-87294-832-6
- Le roi de Kahel . Points, Paris 2009 ISBN 978-2-7578-1461-1
- Payday in Abidjan. Roman (Un attiéké pour Elgass). Hammer, Wuppertal 1996 ISBN 3-87294-642-0
- God bless you! in Gudrun Honke, ed .: Die Mondfrau. 23 new stories from French-speaking sub-Saharan Africa. Übers. Sigrid Groß. Hammer, Wuppertal 1998 ISBN 3872948059 (first: Paris 1990; with short biography)
- Plays
- La tribu des gonzesses. Théâtre . Cauris, Paris 2006 ISBN 2-912525-89-6
literature
- Bernard De Meyer, Papa Samba Diop Ed .: Tierno Monénembo et le Roman. Histoire, exile, écriture. Series: Francophone literatures and cultures outside Europe - Littératures et cultures francophones hors d'Europe, 8. Lit, Münster 2014 ISBN 9783643125910
Web links
- Literature by and about Tierno Monénembo in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Monénembo, Tierno |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | African teacher and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guinea |