Richard Ali A Mutu was born in Mbandaka, Democratic Republic of the
Congo, in 1988. He won the Mark Twain Award in 2009, and published
his first novel, "Tabu s Nightmares," written in French, in 2011.
His novel "Mr. Fix It: Troublesome Kinshasa" was published in
Lingala in 2014, and has since been translated into French as well.
Ali was selected as one of the only writers working in indigenous
languages for the Africa 39 anthology, which showcased the
continent s most talented writers under forty, including Chimamanda
Adichie and Dinaw Mengetsu. He works as a lawyer and writer, and
hosts a weekly television program about Congolese literature.
Bienvenu Sene Mongaba is a Congolese writer, translator, and
publisher. He directs Editions Mabiki, which champions Congolese
languages. He has written three books of fiction in Lingala and
several in French. He splits his time between Kinshasa and
Belgium.
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