Bessora

Bessora

Bessora at the Louvre in 2007
Born Sandrine Bessora Nan Nguema [1]
1968
Brussels, Belgium
Occupation Novelist, short story writer
Language French
Alma mater HEC Lausanne
Paris Dauphine University
Genre Fiction
Notable awards Fénéon Prize
Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire
Website
www.bessora.fr

Bessora (born 1968, Brussels, Belgium) is a novelist and short story writer. After a career in international finance in Geneva, she studied anthropology and wrote her first novel. Since 1999 Bessora has published a book a year on average, mainly through the publishing group Gallimard. Her books have been translated into several languages.

Biography

Because of her numerous stays abroad (Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, France, the United States, Gabon) and her varied origins (Gabon, Switzerland, France, Germany, Poland), Bessora's writing possesses a free, demanding, and unclassifiable character.[2]

Having first dreamed of being a stewardess, Bessora later attended the HEC Lausanne, and then the Paris Dauphine University. After obtaining a degree in management and a master's degree in applied economics, she worked in finance before changing course. Following a journey in South Africa, she studied anthropology in Paris, before publishing her first novel in 1999. She obtained a doctorate in anthropology in 2002, and continued to write novels. She has been compared to Raymond Queneau,[3] and Nathalie Sarraute.[4]

She was awarded the Fénéon Prize in 2001 for her novel Ink Stains,[5] and the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 2007 for her novel Pick Me Pretty Sirs...[6]

Selected novels

Short stories

References

  1. Wilkens, Cybelle McFadden; Teixidor, Sandrine F (2010). Francophone Women: Between Visibility and Invisibility. Peter Lang. p. xii. ISBN 1433108038. Sandrine Bessora Nan Nguema, aka Bessora, a provocative Gabonese-Swiss novelist ...
  2. Le Monde Diplomatique, Anne Cécile ROBERT, December 2007
  3. Lire, R.B, September 1999
  4. Le Nouvel Observateur, Didier Jacob, 8 February 2007
  5. "Prix d'hiver variés". liberation.fr. 13 December 2001. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
  6. "Association des écrivains de langue française". adelf.info. Retrieved 22 February 2014.

Sources

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