Stellar Review attention for Black Moses: Enthusiastically reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, New York Magazine, The Guardian, the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, O, and Rolling Stone.
Awards: 2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Fiction) Winner, longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, longlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize, shortlisted for the Albertine Prize. Mabanckou also won the 2015 French Voices Grand Prize and was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.
International voice: Mabanckou is regarded as Francophone Africa’s leading novelist. He is a professor at UCLA and has commented in the U.S. press on issues of race and immigration in Europe. He was featured on Vanity Fair’s list of France's fifty most influential people.
Strong social media platform: Mabanckou has 24,000+ followers on Twitter, 9300 followers on Instagram and he has a dedicated author website. He is easily one of the best-dressed novelists on the planet.
Prolific public speaker: Mabanckou has spoken at PEN World Voices in New York, lectured at the College De France and has sparred publicly with French President Emmanuel Macron
Blurbs/endorsements: Salman Rushdie, Marlon James, Jeff Vandermeer?
Affiliations: PEN America, UCLA French Department
Stellar Review attention for Black Moses: Enthusiastically reviewed in the San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, New York Magazine, The Guardian, the New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, New York Times Book Review, the Wall Street Journal, O, and Rolling Stone.
Awards: 2018 Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award (Fiction) Winner, longlisted for the Aspen Words Literary Prize, longlisted for the PEN America Translation Prize, shortlisted for the Albertine Prize. Mabanckou also won the 2015 French Voices Grand Prize and was a finalist for the 2015 Man Booker International Prize.
International voice: Mabanckou is regarded as Francophone Africa’s leading novelist. He is a professor at UCLA and has commented in the U.S. press on issues of race and immigration in Europe. He was featured on Vanity Fair’s list of France's fifty most influential people.
Strong social media platform: Mabanckou has 24,000+ followers on Twitter, 9300 followers on Instagram and he has a dedicated author website. He is easily one of the best-dressed novelists on the planet.
Prolific public speaker: Mabanckou has spoken at PEN World Voices in New York, lectured at the College De France and has sparred publicly with French President Emmanuel Macron
Blurbs/endorsements: Salman Rushdie, Marlon James, Jeff Vandermeer?
Affiliations: PEN America, UCLA French Department