Alain Mabanckou

Alain Mabanckou was born on 24 February 1966 in Pointe-Noire, where he grew up and took his baccalauréat at the Karl-Marx lycée. He began studying law at Marien-Ngouabi University in Brazzaville, then left for France at the age of twenty-two thanks to a grant and finished his law studies there. He worked for about ten years for the Suez-Lyonnaise des eaux group, before teaching francophone literature at the University of Michigan, then, from 2006, at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received the Prix Renaudot in 2006 and was a visiting professor at the Collège de France.

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• NovelBlue White RedBleu-Blanc-RougeAlain Mabanckou · 1998Literature