The author Fiston Mwanza Mujila and the translator Roland Glasser will be with us at the French Institute to talk about the book TRAM 83.
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© Author: Fiston Mwanza Mujila. Photograph: Gaël Turine
About the author:
Fiston Mwanza Mujila was born in 1981 in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of Congo, where he went to a Catholic school before studying Literature and Human Sciences at Lubumbashi University. He now lives in Graz, Austria and is pursuing a PhD in Romance Languages. His writing has been awarded with numerous prizes, including the Gold Medal at the 6th Jeux de la Francophonie in Beirut as well as the Best Text for Theater (“Preis für das beste Stück,” State Theater, Mainz) in 2010. His novel Tram 83 was a French Voices 2014 grant recipient.
His poems, prose works, and plays are reactions to the political turbulence that has come in the wake of the independence of the Congo and its effect on day-to-day life. As he describes in one of his poems, his texts describe a “geography of hunger:” hunger for peace, freedom, and bread. His texts have been published in the original French and in translation in many journals and anthologies in several European countries, and he has been performing at readings and festivals since 2002.
About the book: TRAM 83
Tram 83 is a gripping story that unfolds in the heart of an eclectic crowd which is gathered at the train station of an imaginary African country’s capital. Over the course of a breathtaking journey, Mujila reveals the power of literature against a postcolonial backdrop. Tram 83, whose story is well showcased by a fantastic translation, is funny and energetic.
This is Fiston Mwanza Mujila’s first novel. It was first published in French in August 2014 as a lead title of the rentrée litteraire by Éditions Métailié. It has been shortlisted and won numerous literary prizes in France and Austria, and has been translated into six languages.
Event details
Talk: Fiston Mwanza Mujila & Roland Glasser
Thursday 14 May | 6pm
Bilingual event FRENCH/ENGLISH
(English, French and German Q&A possible)
FREE & OPEN TO ALL
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