from “Malamine”

by Christophe Ngalle Edimo and Simon-Pierre Mbumbo
Translated by Edward Gauvin

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From Malamine, un africain à Paris, by Christophe-Ngalle Edimo and Simon-Pierre Mbumbo. Published 2009 by Éditions Les Enfants Rouges. Copyright 2009 by Éditions Les Enfants Rouges. By arrangement with the publisher. Rights arranged through Nicolas Grivel. Translation copyright 2011 by Edward Gauvin. All rights reserved.

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Christophe Ngalle EdimoChristophe Ngalle Edimo

Christophe Ngalle Edimo was born in France but raised in Cameroon. He holds degrees in sciences from the University of Créteil in France and in literature from the University of Yaoundé  in Cameroon. He is a member of L'Afrique dessinée, an association growing out of a project concerning the health of African children, in which artists were asked to draw about education and children's health, with the goal of bringing  to a large audience the reality of Africans around the world.  In 2007, his short story, Enfants, drawn by Fifi Mukuna, was exhibited in the show African Comics, organized by Studio Museum in Harlem.  Malamine, un africain à Paris is his first book.

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Simon-Pierre MbumboSimon-Pierre Mbumbo

Simon-Pierre Mbumbo is a Cameroonian cartoonist and the  co-founder of the Association for Cameroon Cartoonists. In 1998, at the Libreville Festival in Gabon, he met Yves Poinot of the  Angoulême Festival and decided to study art and informatics in Angoulême. He has lived in France for ten years. In 2009, Malamine, un africain à Paris was recognized in the Blois Festival.

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Translated from FrenchFrench by Edward GauvinEdward Gauvin

The winner of the John Dryden Translation prize, Clarion alum Edward Gauvin has received fellowships and residencies from the NEA, the Fulbright program, the Centre National du Livre, and the Lannan Foundation. His volume of Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud’s selected stories, A Life on Paper (Small Beer, 2010), won the Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Award and was shortlisted for the Best Translated Book Award. Other publications have appeared in The New York Times, Tin House, Conjunctions, The Southern Review, and PEN America. The contributing editor for Francophone comics at Words Without Borders, he writes a bimonthly column on the Francophone fantastic at Weird Fiction Review and blogs on translation at Absinthe Minded.

 

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