Moussa Konaté

Moussa Konaté was born in 1951 in Kita, in western Mali, into a Malinke family. With a degree in letters from the École normale supérieure in Bamako, he taught French and Latin for several years before making a living from writing, and published a first novel in 1981. In 1997 he founded a publishing house in Bamako, co-directed the city's Étonnants voyageurs festival from 2001 to 2011, and one of his plays received the Sony Labou Tansi Prize. He died in Limoges on 30 November 2013, aged sixty-two.

In the catalogue 1

• NovelL'Assassin du BanconiMoussa Konaté · 1998not translated into EnglishLiterature