Wilfried N'Sondé
Wilfried N'Sondé (born 1968 in Brazzaville , Republic of the Congo ) is a French writer and musician.
Life
Wilfried N'Sondé's parents moved to Paris from the Republic of Congo in 1973 because his father had received a scholarship from a Paris art school. He grew up in a Paris suburb. N'Sondé studied political science at the Sorbonne and the University of Paris-Nanterre until 1991 and then lived in Berlin for 25 years . There he appeared with his brother Serge N'Sondé with chansons in a mixture of trash rock and afro punk. He worked in Charlottenburg on social projects with Turkish youth. In 2007 he made his debut with the novel Le cœur des enfants léopards and was awarded the Prix Senghor de la Création Littéraire and the Prix des cinq continents de la francophonie,
He then moved back to Paris. In 2016 he was Friedrich Dürrenmatt visiting professor for world literature at the Walter Benjamin Kolleg at the University of Bern . In 2018 he received the Prix Ahmadou-Kourouma.
Fonts (selection)
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Le Cœur des enfants léopards . Arles: Actes Sud, 2007 ISBN 978-2-7427-6558-4
- The heart of the leopard children . Translation of Brigitte Große . Munich: Kunstmann, 2008
- Le silence des esprits . Arles: Actes Sud, 2010 ISBN 978-2-7427-8925-2
- Fleur de béton . Arles: Actes Sud, 2012 ISBN 978-2-330-00589-4
- Manifestos pour l'hospitalité des langues . Edited by Gilles Pellerin with Henriette Walter , Wilfried N'Sondé, Boualem Sansal , Jean-Luc Raharimanana , Patrice Meyer-Bisch. Éditions la Passe du vent, L'instant même, 2012 ISBN 978-2-89502-318-0
- Berlinoise . Arles: Actes Sud, 2015 ISBN 978-2-330-03886-1
- Un océan, deux mers, trois continents . Arles: Actes Sud, 2018 ISBN 978-2-330-09052-4
- School reading
- Septembre d'or . Stuttgart: Klett, 2011, 40 pages and 1 CD. ISBN 978-3-12-591849-8
Web links
- Literature by and about Wilfried N'Sondé in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Wilfried N'Sondé in the bibliographic database WorldCat
- Short biography and reviews of works by Wilfried N'Sondé at perlentaucher.de
- Wilfried N'Sondé at Actes Sud
- Wilfried N'Sondé at the Internationales Literaturfestival Berlin , 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wilfried N'Sondé. Walter Benjamin Kolleg of the University of Bern , 2020, accessed on August 5, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | N'Sondé, Wilfried |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | N'Sonde, Wilfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brazzaville |