# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alain-mabanckou
# Generated: 2026-08-14T12:50:32.893Z

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name: "Alain Mabanckou"
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description: "Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he is currently a Professor of Literature at UCLA. He is best known for his novels and non-fiction writing depicting the experience of contemporary Africa and the African diaspora in France, including Broken Glass (2005) and the Prix Renaudot-winning Memoirs of a Porcupine (2006). He is among the best known and most successful writers in the French language, and one of the best known African writers in France. In some circles in Paris he is known as \"the Samuel Beckett of Africa\"."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump