# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/sony-lab-ou-tansi
# Generated: 2026-08-14T21:38:01.609Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/sony-lab-ou-tansi"
name: "Sony Lab'ou Tansi"
slug: "sony-lab-ou-tansi"
description: "Sony Lab'ou Tansi, born Marcel Ntsoni, was a Congolese novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and poet in French language. Though he was only 47 when he died, Tansi remains one of the most prolific African writers and the most internationally renowned practitioner of the \"New African Writing.\" His novel The Antipeople won the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire. In his later years, he ran a theatrical company in Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo."
tagline: "Writer (1947-1995)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/24/Sony_Labou_Tansi.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1947-06-05"
deathDate: "1995-06-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           51.97
  momentum:             7.436974789915967
  historical:           18.70558266666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://fr.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sony_Labou_Tansi"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%D9%89"
    title: "سونى لابو تانسى"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C"
    title: "سونی لابو تانسی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%DB%86%D9%86%DB%8C_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C"
    title: "سۆنی لابو تانسی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://dag.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Lab'ou_Tansi"
    title: "Sony Lab'ou Tansi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Labou_Tansi"
    title: "Sony Labou Tansi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Lab'ou_Tansi"
    title: "Sony Lab'ou Tansi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Labou_Tansi"
    title: "Sony Labou Tansi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Labou_Tansi"
    title: "Sony Labou Tansi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C"
    title: "سونی لابو تانسی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Lab%E2%80%99ou_Tansi"
    title: "Sony Lab’ou Tansi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Labou_Tansi"
    title: "Sony Labou Tansi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%8D%D5%B8%D5%B6%D5%AB_%D4%BC%D5%A1%D5%A2%D5%B8%D6%82_%D5%8F%D5%A1%D5%B6%D5%BD%D5%AB"
    title: "Սոնի Լաբու Տանսի"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Labou_Tansi"
    title: "Sony Labou Tansi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BD%E3%83%8B%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A9%E3%83%96%EF%BC%9D%E3%82%BF%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B7"
    title: "ソニー・ラブ＝タンシ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ln.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Labou_Tansi"
    title: "Sony Labou Tansi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mzn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D9%88%D9%86%DB%8C_%D9%84%D8%A7%D8%A8%D9%88_%D8%AA%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%B3%DB%8C"
    title: "سونی لابو تانسی"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%8B%E0%A8%A8%E0%A9%80_%E0%A8%B2%E0%A8%B5%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%89_%E0%A8%A4%E0%A8%BE%E0%A8%82%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%80"
    title: "ਸੋਨੀ ਲਵਾਉ ਤਾਂਸੀ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labou_Tansi_Sony"
    title: "Labou Tansi Sony"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Labou_Tansi"
    title: "Sony Labou Tansi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BE%D0%BD%D0%B8_%D0%9B%D0%B0%D0%B1%D1%83_%D0%A2%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%81%D0%B8"
    title: "Сони Лабу Танси"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Lab'ou_Tansi"
    title: "Sony Lab'ou Tansi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Lab'ou_Tansi"
    title: "Sony Lab'ou Tansi"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%B4%A2%E5%B0%BC%C2%B7%E6%8B%89%E6%AC%A7%C2%B7%E5%9D%A6%E5%B8%8C"
    title: "索尼·拉欧·坦希"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q983273"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump