Fiston Mwanza Mujila

Fiston Nasser Mwanza Mujila (born 1981 in Lubumbashi) is a Congolese writer.

Biography

Fiston Mwanza Mujila was the recipient of the gold medal for literature at the 2009 Francophone Games in Lebanon for his text "The Night".^[1][2]

In 2014, Fiston Mwanza Mujila's debut novel, Tram 83, was published by Éditions Métailié to considerable acclaim. In autumn 2015, an English translation (by Roland Glasser) of Tram 83 was published by Deep Vellum Publishing in Dallas, Texas, and received widespread praise.^[3]

This translation was also published by Jacaranda in the UK and Scribe in Australia and New Zealand. Other translations of Tram 83 have appeared in Italian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish and German. Mujila lives in Graz, Austria.

The 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature was awarded to Mujila on 19 March 2016 for Tram 83,^[4][5] having earlier in the month been announced on the longlist for the Man Booker International Prize.^[6][7]

Bibliography

• Le Fleuve dans le Ventre / Der Fluß im Bauch, poèmes, bilingual edn, translated into German by Ludwig Hartinger, Ottensheim an der Donau, Autriche, Édition Thanhäuser, 2013, 114 p. (ISBN 978-3-900986-79-7)^[8]
• Tram 83, Novel, Dallas, Deep Vellum Publishing, 2015, 224 p. (ISBN 1941920047)^[9][10]
• Et les moustiques sont des fruits à pépins & Te voir dressé sur tes deux pattes ne fait que mettre de l’huile au feu, Play, Manage, Belgique, Éditions Lansman, 2015, 86 p. (39 & 36) (ISBN 978-2-8071-0046-6)

Notes and references

1. Camille de Marcilly. "Fiston Mwanza Mujila : "Les mots comme des notes"". La Libre Belgique. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
2. Pierre Lepidi. "Fiston Mwanza Mujila, le musicien des mots". Le Monde. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
3. Powers, John. "An Exuberantly Dark First Novel Explores The Chaos Of Central Africa". NPR.org. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
4. "Fiston Mwanza Mujila Wins £15,000 as Etisalat Prize for Literature", BellaNaija, 20 March 2016.
5. "Fiston Mwanza Mujila wins 2015 Etisalat Prize for Tram 83", Books Live, 19 March 2016.
6. "The Man Booker International Prize 2016 Longlist Announced", The Man Booker Prize, 10 March 2016.
7. "Congolese Novel Longlisted For Man Booker Prize 2016", The Voice, 11 March 2016.
8. Tristan Guilloux. "Le Fleuve dans le ventre de Fiston Mwanza Mujila". africultures.com. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
9. Philippe Manche (25 September 2014). ""Tram 83", un bar de nuit qui vit et qui vibre". Le Soir. Retrieved 7 November 2014.
10. Michel Abescat - Telerama n° 3377. "Tram 83 - livre de Fiston Mwanza Mujila". Télérama.fr. Retrieved 7 November 2014.

External links

• "Tram 83, the Congolese novel that's wowing the literary world - extract", The Guardian, 7 January 2016.