Bessora
Sign in to saveBessora (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.
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- Born
- 1968
- Works
- 11
Top works
- Zoonomia
- Le testament de Nicolas
- Fort comme un hypersensible
- petroleum
- Alpha
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5 total works indexed
- Pétroleum
· 2005
- Louise X
· 2018
- Deux bébés et I'addition
· 2003
- Les taches d'encre
· 2001
- Féminitude et filiations
· 2018
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Official website
Bessora – Tendre peau de vache
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- Official website
- www.bessora.fr
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- Bessora Louvre Novembre 2007.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1968-12-17
- birth name
- Sandrine Bessora Nan Nguema
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- Biography
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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.
==Biography== Because of her numerous stays abroad (Belgium, Switzerland, Austria, France, the United States, Gabon) and her varied origins (Gabon, Switzerland, France, Germany, Poland), Bessora's writing possesses a free, demanding, and unclassifiable character.