Memoirs Of A Porcupine

Alain Mabanckou was born in 1966 in the Congo. He currently lives in LA, where he teaches literature at UCLA. One of Africa's major writers, he is the author of six volumes of poetry and six novels. He received the Subsaharan African Literature Prize for Blue-White-Red, and the Prix Renaudot for Memoirs of a Porcupine. He was selected by the French journal Lire as one of the fifty writers to watch out for this coming century. He was awarded the Grand Prix de la Littérature in 2012, and in 2015 was listed as a finalist for the Man Booker International Prize.Other novels, African Psycho [9781846686412], Broken Glass [9781846688157] and Black Bazaar [9781846687778] are also published by Serpent's Tail.

Praise for Broken Glass: 'A dizzying combination of erudition, bawdy humour and linguistic effervescence Financial Times Obsessive and slyly playful ... the prose runs wild to weave endless sentences, their rhythm and pace attuned to the narrator's rhetorical extravagances Independent A comic romp that releases Mabanckou's sense of humour ... His jokes work the whole spectrum of humour Guardian