Gabonese writers

actress, director and screenwriter from Burkina Faso

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.

Gabonese writer and academic (born 1957)