Winner PEN Translates award from the English PENSelected as 'Book of the Week' by London's Institut Francais, October 2015Winner of the French Voices Award from the Cultural Services of the French Embassy inthe US, 2014Best French Debut finalist of 2014 according to LIRE
Fiston Mwanza Mujila was born in 1981 in Lubumbashi, Democratic
Republic of Congo and now lives in Graz, Austria. His writing has
been awarded with numerous prizes, including the Gold Medal at the
6th Jeux de la Francophonie in Beirut as well as the Best Text for
Theater ("Preis fu¨r das beste Stu¨ck", State Theater, Mainz) in
2010.
His texts have been published in journals and anthologies across
Europe, and he has been performing at readings and festivals since
2002.
Tram 83 is Fiston's first novel, originally published in French by
E´ditions Me´tailie´. It has been shortlisted for and won numerous
literary prizes, and has been translated into eight languages.
"Blade Runner in Africa with a John Coltrane soundtrack." - Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore (Houston, TX); "Stylistically quirky and unorthodox fiction from Africa...Tram 83 is the locus of those driven by ambition, desire, greed, or pleasure and in this underworld we meet quite a cast of characters." Kirkuk Reviews; "An exuberantly dark first novel ... Evoking everyone from Brueghel to Henry Miller to Celine, Fiston plunges us into a world so anarchic it would leave even Ted Cruz begging for more government... Rather than moralize, he transfigures harsh reality with a bounding, inventive, bebop-style prose, translated from the French with light-footed skill by Roland Glasser." John Powers, NPR's Fresh Air w/ Terry Gross
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