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Alain Mabanckou

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Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic. A French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he currently teaches literature and creative writing in the Department of French & Francophone Studies and African Studies Center at UCLA. Known for his novels and non-fiction writing depicting the experience of contemporary Africa and the African diaspora in France, Mabanckou is among the most recognized Franco African writers in France in contemporary literature.

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Bibliography

Standalone Fiction

Blue White Red

The Negro Grandsons of Vercingetorix

African Psycho

Broken Glass

Black Bazaar

Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty

Memoirs of a Porcupine

Black Moses

The Death of Comrade President

Dealing with the Dead

Standalone Non-fiction

The Lights of Pointe-Noire

Letter to Jimmy

The Tears of the Black Man

Works of Poetry

As Long As Trees Take Root in the Earth

Little Stacks of Classics & Literary Fiction

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