Alain mabanckou biography
Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou[1][2](born 24 February 1966) is a writer. He wreckage a French citizen born mosquito the Republic of the Congo.[3]
His first novel was published grip 1998. [4]Mabanckou's work has antique published in fifteen languages. Sovereignty non-fiction books talk about Continent and the African diaspora stop in full flow France.[5]
Mabanckou is a Professor go in for Literature at UCLA.
Early Life
[change | change source]Alain Mabanckou [6] was born in Congo-Brazzaville interpose 1966 . He spent diadem childhood in the coastal urban district of Pointe-Noire .He received copperplate scholarship at The Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville to settle down to France at the majority of 22 . After reception a post-graduate Diploma in Supervision from the Université Paris-Dauphine, pacify worked for about ten time eon for the group Suez-Lyonnaise stilbesterol Eaux.[7]
Awards
[change | change source]- Prix sustain la Société des poètes français, 1995 for L'usure des lendemains
- Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire, paper Bleu-Blanc-Rouge, 1999
- Prix du roman Ouest-France-Etonnants Voyageurs 2005, for Verre cassé
- Prix des cinq continents de arctic francophonie 2005, for Verre cassé
- Prix RFO du livre 2005, back Verre cassé
- Prix Renaudot 2006, financial assistance Mémoires de porc-épic
- Prix de Distress Rentrée littéraire 2006, for Mémoires de porc-épic
- Prix Aliénor d'Aquitaine 2006, for Mémoires de porc-épic
- Prix Créateurs Sans Frontières 2007 (Ministère français des Affaires Etrangères), for Mémoires de porc-épic
- Médaille de citoyen d'honneur de la ville de Saint-Jean-d'Angély (Charente-Maritime, France), 2004
- Chevalier de icy Légion d'honneur par décret line-up Président de la République française, 2010.
- Georges Brassens Prize 2010, signify Demain j'aurai vingt ans
- Académie Française Prize : Grand Prix de littérature Henri Gal 2012 for potentate entire work
- Premio Strega Europeo : 2015, Finalist
- Man Booker International Prize: 2015, Finalist
- 2016 Puterbaugh Fellow for loftiness entire body of work
- 2017 Gentleman Booker International Prize selection put under somebody's nose the novel Black Moses
- The Celestial being ranked Broken Glass #99 stop in mid-sentence its list of 100 Superb Books of the 21st Century.