Alain Mabanckou is within giant steps of artists around the planet, in reach of everybody everywhere per the same seemingly miraculous small-world principle which dictates that there are between most human beings on earth 6 or fewer degrees of separation...
...inside a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
ˈmātriks - "source", from "mater", Latin for "mother". We're real mothers for ya!
- Worldlines from Alain Mabanckou: I'LL TAKE YOU THERE! ▶
Worldlines to Alain Mabanckou:
I'LL TAKE YOU THERE! ▶
- Outgoing curation by: The Matrix
Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Alain Mabanckou
- City: Los Angeles
- Country: United States
- Hometown: Pointe-Noire, Congo-Brazzaville
My Life & Work
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Bio:
Alain Mabanckou is considered to be one of the most talented and prolific writers in the French language today and the first francophone sub-saharian African writer to be published by Gallimard in its prestigious "collection" called La Blanche.
He was born in Congo-Brazzaville in 1966 and is mostly known for his novels, notably Verre Cassé (BROKEN GLASS) which was unanimously praised by the press, critics and readers alike.
In 2006 he published Memoires de porc-épic (Memoirs of a Porcupine) which garnered him the Prix RENAUDOT, one of the highest distinctions in literature written in french. His novels are published in more than fifteen languages.
He his currently a professor of French and Francophone studies at the University of California-Los Angeles.
Né à Pointe-Noire, au Congo-Brazzaville où il a grandi, Alain Mabanckou est un écrivain, romancier et professeur aux Etats-Unis à l'Université de Los Angeles.
Il a été le premier écrivain à occupé la Chaire annuelle de Création artistique au Collège de France. Ses oeuvres sont traduites dans une vingtaine de langues et il a reçu plus d'une quinzaine de prix littéraires dont le Prix Renaudot, le Prix Henri Gal de l'Académie Française pour l'ensemble de son oeuvre.
My Media
- ▶ Twitter: amabanckou
- ▶ Book Purchases: http://www.amazon.com/Alain-Mabanckou/e/B001JOWFBS%3F
- ▶ Article: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/10/01/alain-mabanckous-masterfully-unstructured-novel-of-addiction/
- ▶ Article 2: http://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/20/books/review/alain-mabanckou-black-moses-.html
Contact Information
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Management/Booking:
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