Bessora
Sign in to saveBessora (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. Bessora has been awarded the Fénéon Prize in 2001 for her novel Ink Stains, and the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 2007 for her novel Pick Me Pretty Sirs, and the Swiss Literature Prize and Prix Kourouma for Vous, les ancêtres.
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It sits within the topics 1968 births, 20th-century Belgian novelists and 20th-century Belgian women writers.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1968
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Zoonomia
- Le testament de Nicolas
- Fort comme un hypersensible
- petroleum
- Alpha
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Official website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sandrine
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- France
- Occupation
- writer
- Position held
- chairperson
- Educated at
- Paris Dauphine University
- Languages spoken
- French
- Field of work
- short story
- Official website
- www.bessora.fr
- Image
- Bessora Louvre Novembre 2007.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1968-12-17
- birth name
- Sandrine Bessora Nan Nguema
- Commons category
- Bessora
- writing language
- French
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Selected novels
- Short stories
- References
- Sources
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. Bessora has been awarded the Fénéon Prize in 2001 for her novel Ink Stains, and the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 2007 for her novel Pick Me Pretty Sirs, and the Swiss Literature Prize and Prix Kourouma for Vous, les ancêtres.
==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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bessora” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.