Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Congo and currently lives in Los Angeles, where he teaches literature at UCLA. His six previous novels Black Moses, African Psycho, Memoirs of a Porcupine, Broken Glass, Black Bazaar and Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty are all published by Serpent's Tail. Among his many honours are the Académie Française's Grand Prix de literature and the 2016 French Voices Award for The Lights of Pointe-Noire. Mabanckou is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur, was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize and has featured on Vanity Fair's list of France's fifty most influential people.
Books by Alain Mabanckou
The Death of Comrade President
Alain Mabanckou
A poignant tale of family and revolution in postcolonial Africa, from one of the continent's greatest living novelists
African Psycho
Alain Mabanckou
Alain Mabanckou's uproarious, fleet-footed English-language debut, reissued as a Serpent's Tail Classic to coincide with the publication of…
The Lights of Pointe-Noire
Alain Mabanckou
A moving meditation on home, home-coming and belonging from Francophone Africa's most important writer
Tomorrow I'll Be Twenty
Alain Mabanckou
An irresistible and heart-warming child's-eye view novel set in Africa
Memoirs Of A Porcupine
Alain Mabanckou
Outlandish, surreal and enjoyable, Mabanckou brings his unique sense of humour to magic realism