Mabanckou, Alain, 1966-

LC control no.	no 96008267
Descriptive conventions	rda
LC classification	PQ3989.2.M217
Personal name heading	Mabanckou, Alain, 1966- *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Other standard no.	http://dbpedia.org/resource/Alain_Mabanckou Q268522 http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q268522 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/369408
Associated country	France United States
Associated place	Ann Arbor (Mich.) Los Angeles (Calif.)
Located	Pointe-Noire (Kouilou, Congo) Paris (France) Santa Monica (Calif.)
Birth date	1966-02-24
Place of birth	Congo (Brazzaville) Mouyondzi (Congo)
Field of activity	Novels Poetry Journalism French literature--Study and teaching
Affiliation	University of California, Los Angeles University of Michigan Collège de France Suez SA. Lyonnaise des Eaux
Profession or occupation	Novelists Journalists Poets College teachers Literature teachers French teachers University and college faculty members
Found in	La légende de l'errance, c1995: t.p. (Alain Mabanckou) p. 4 of cover (29 yr. old; b., Congo; lives in Paris) Les arbres aussi versent des larmes ; suivi de Versets, c1997: t.p. (Alain Mabanckou) cover p. 4 (b. 1966) Wikipedia, April 30, 2013 (Alain Mabanckou, born 24 February 1966, is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo. He is currently a professor of literature in the United States) August 1, 2016 (Alain Mabanckou (born 24 February 1966) is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he is currently a Professor of Literature in the United States. He is best known for his novels and non-fiction writing depicting the experience of contemporary Africa and the African diaspora in France; born in Congo-Brazzaville in 1966. He spent his childhood in the coastal city of Pointe-Noire where he received his baccalaureate in Letters and Philosophy at the Lycée Karl Marx. After preliminary law classes at The Marien Ngouabi University in Brazzaville, he received a scholarship to go to France at the age of 22. He already had several manuscripts to his name, mostly collections of poems, which he began publishing three years later. After receiving a post-graduate Diploma in Law from the Université Paris-Dauphine, he worked for about ten years for the group Suez-Lyonnaise des Eau; In 2002, Mabanckou went to teach Francophone Literature at the University of Michigan as an Assistant Professor. After three years there he was hired in 2006 by the University of California Los Angeles, where he is now a full Professor in the French Department. He currently lives in Santa Monica, California. He was appointed Visiting Professor at the Collège de France (Chair of Artistic Creation) for 2016) Petit Piment, 2015: title page (Alain Mabanckou) page 4 of cover (Finalist for the Man Booker International Prize 2015, Alain Mabanckou is the author of 10 novels; he teaches francophone literature at the University of California, Los Angeles) Britannica online, August 1, 2016 (Alain Mabanckou, (born February 24, 1966, Mouyondzi, Congo [now Republic of the Congo]), prolific Francophone Congolese poet and novelist whose wordplay, philosophical bent, and sometimes sly and often absurd sense of humour resulted in his being known in France as "the African Samuel Beckett"; grew up in the port city of Pointe-Noire)
Associated language	fre