Alain Mabanckou

Alain Mabanckou is a Congolese writer born with Point-Black (République of Congo) in 1966.

Biography

Alain Mabanckou was born with the Congo-Brazzaville in 1966. He passes his childhood in the Point-Black coastal town of where he obtains a baccalaureat in Letters and Philosophy with the Karl-Marx College. He directs himself then towards the right, his mother wishing that he become magistrate or lawyer. After a first cycle of private law at the Marien-Ngouabi University with Brazzaville, it obtains a grant and flies away for the France at the 22 years age, with already some manuscripts in its business, of the collections of poems for the majority, which it will start to publish three years later.

After a DEA of right to the University of Paris-Dauphine, he works ten years in the group Suez - Lyonnaise of Water, but is devoted more and more to the writing with the publication in 1998 of its first novel Blue-White-Red which is worth the to him Literary Grand Prix of the Black Africa . From this date, it will not cease publishing with regularity, as well prose as of poetry. It is especially the novel which reveals it with the general public, with in particular Verre broken , unanimously greeted by the press, the critic and the readers; then Memories of Porcupine which is worth to him in 2006 one of highest distinctions of the French letters, with the Goncourt, the Prix Renaudot. The two novels are appeared with the Editions of the Threshold, respectively in 2005 and 2006.

Writer in residence in 2002, it taught the French-speaking literature with Ann Arbor during three years before being noticed by the the University of California to Los Angeles (UCLA) which invites it initially as Visiting Professor in 2006 then names it Full professor ( Full Professor ) of French-speaking literature in 2007.

He lives today with Santa Monica, in California.

Its works are translated in about fifteen languages of which the English, the American , the Hebrew , the Korean , the Spanish , the Catalan and the Italian . Verre broken was the subject of several theatrical adaptations.

In 2007, the poetic writings of Alain Mabanckou reappear, at Point-Threshold, under the title of As long as the trees will be enracineront in the ground , as well as the book which it devotes to the writer James Baldwin, Lettre in Jimmy (Fayard), at the time of the twentieth birthday of died of the American writer.

Works

Novels and accounts

1998: Blue-White-Red , African Presence
2000: the burial of my mother , Editions Kaleidoscope
2001: And God alone know how I sleep , African Présence
2002: negro Grandsons of Vercingétorix , Snake with Plumes/En pocket at “Points”, Editions of the Threshold, 2006
2003: African Psycho , the Plumed serpent Out of pocket at “Points”, Editions of the Threshold, 2006
2005: Glass Broken , Editions of Seuil/En pocket at “Points”, Editions of the Threshold, 2006
2006: Memories of porcupine , Threshold/(Price Renaudot)/Out of pocket at “Points”, Editions of the Threshold, 2007
2006: Remarks half-compartment-shifted of an almost ordinary Negro , Télérama

Poetry

1993 : From day to day , Rhone-native House of poetry
1995: the legend of the wandering , Editions Harmattan
1995: the wear of the following days , News of the South
1997: the trees also pour tears , Harmattan
1999: When the cock announces the paddle of another day, Harmattan
2007: As long as the trees will be enracineront in the ground , complete poetic Oeuvre, “Points”, Seuil

Test

2007 : Letter in Jimmy (James Baldwin), Beech

Rewards

Price of the Company of the French poets, 1995
literary Grand Prix of Black Africa, for its first novel, Blue-White-Red , 1999
West-France-Astonishing Prices of the novel Travellers 2005, for Glass broken
Price of the five continents of the francophonie 2005, for Glass broken
Price RFO of the book 2005, for Glass broken
Price Renaudot 2006, for Memories of porcupine
Price of the Re-entry arts person 2006, for Memories of porcupine
Aliénor Price of Aquitaine 2006, for Memories of porcupine
Creative Prices Without Borders 2007 (French Ministry of the Foreign affairs), for Memories of porcupine
Medal of citizen of honor of the town of Saint-Jean-in Angély (Charente-Maritime, France), 2004

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