Bessora
Bessora | |
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Bessora at the Louvre in 2007 | |
| Born | 1968 Brussels, Belgium |
| Occupation | Novelist, short story writer |
| Language | French |
| Alma mater | HEC Lausanne Paris Dauphine University |
| Genre | Fiction |
| Notable awards | Fénéon Prize Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire |
| Website | |
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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.