Nincemon Fallé was born in eastern Cote D’Ivoire in 2002 and grew up between Bondoukou, Abidjan, Aboisso and Daloa. Today he lives in Abidjan, in the Yogoupon district. He wrote These Blazing Suns, his first novel while working in a printing shop. Nincemon means in Guéré: “The fire is not extinguished”.Tina Kover’s translations for Europa Editions include Anne Berest’s The Postcard and Négar Djavadi’s Disoriental, winner of the Albertine Prize and the Lambda Literary Award, and a finalist for both the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the PEN Translation Prize.

“Fallé’s intergenerational tale of struggle, endurance, and relative success constitutes a very readable and promising entry into the world of francophone African literature.”

Nincemon Fallé was born in eastern Cote D’Ivoire in 2002 and grew up between Bondoukou, Abidjan, Aboisso and Daloa. Today he lives in Abidjan, in the Yogoupon district. He wrote These Blazing Suns, his first novel while working in a printing shop. Nincemon means in Guéré: “The fire is not extinguished”.Tina Kover’s translations for Europa Editions include Anne Berest’s The Postcard and Négar Djavadi’s Disoriental, winner of the Albertine Prize and the Lambda Literary Award, and a finalist for both the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the PEN Translation Prize.

“Fallé’s intergenerational tale of struggle, endurance, and relative success constitutes a very readable and promising entry into the world of francophone African literature.”

Nincemon Fallé was born in eastern Cote D’Ivoire in 2002 and grew up between Bondoukou, Abidjan, Aboisso and Daloa. Today he lives in Abidjan, in the Yogoupon district. He wrote These Blazing Suns, his first novel while working in a printing shop. Nincemon means in Guéré: “The fire is not extinguished”.Tina Kover’s translations for Europa Editions include Anne Berest’s The Postcard and Négar Djavadi’s Disoriental, winner of the Albertine Prize and the Lambda Literary Award, and a finalist for both the 2020 National Book Award for Translated Literature and the PEN Translation Prize.

“Fallé’s intergenerational tale of struggle, endurance, and relative success constitutes a very readable and promising entry into the world of francophone African literature.”