Lomé
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,
Togo
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) is a Togolese-Canadian writer. Born in
Togo
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and educated in France, he has lived in
Gatineau
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,
Quebec
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* ''La Presse'' (Canadian newspaper), published in Montreal, Canada
* ''La Presse'' (French newspaper), published in the 19th and early 20th century
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'', September 15, 2009.
His
debut novel
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''Port-Mélo'' won the
Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire
The Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire (one of the major literary prizes of Black Africa for Francophone Literature) is a literary prize presented every year by the ADELF, the Association of French Language Writers for a French original tex ...
in 2006,Edem Awumey . Montreal Black History Month. and his second novel ''Les Pied sales'' was a shortlisted nominee for the
Prix Goncourt
The Prix Goncourt (french: Le prix Goncourt, , ''The Goncourt Prize'') is a prize in French literature, given by the académie Goncourt to the author of "the best and most imaginative prose work of the year". The prize carries a symbolic reward o ...
in 2009. ''Dirty Feet'', an English translation of ''Les Pieds sales'' by Lazer Lederhendler, was also a shortlisted nominee for the 2011
Governor General's Award for French to English translation
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Winners and nominees
1980s
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and the 2012
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for fiction.
His third novel, ''Rose déluge'', was published in 2011, and his fourth, ''Explication de la nuit'', was published in 2013. He is also the author of ''Tierno Monénembo: le roman de l'exil'', a critical study of the work of
Tierno Monénembo Thierno Saïdou Diallo, usually known as Tierno Monénembo (born 1947 in Porédaka), is a Francophone Guinean novelist and biochemist. Born in Guinea, he later lived in Senegal, Algeria, Morocco, and finally France since 1973. He has written eight b ...
.
At the
2018 Governor General's Awards
The shortlisted nominees for the 2018 Governor General's Awards for Literary Merit were announced on October 3, 2018,Phyllis Aronoff
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and
Howard Scott
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Early life
Little is known about Scott's background or his early li ...
won the Governor General's Award for French to English translation for ''Descent Into Night'', the English translation of ''Explication de la nuit''.
His most recent novel, ''Mina parmi les ombres'', was published in fall 2018. It was shortlisted for the
Governor General's Award for French-language fiction
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Le Droit
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