[HIGHLIGHTS] The Interview - Alain Mabanckou: "I want to express to the world the strength of the African imagination"

Franco-Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in Pointe-Noire, Congo-Brazzaville. His first novel, "Bleu-Blanc-Rouge", won him the Grand Literary Prize of Black Africa in 1998.

In 2002, he moved to the United States to teach French-speaking literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. His Renaudot Prize in 2006 for “Mémoires de porc-épic” is a consecration.