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Understanding Immigration in Two African Novels: An African in Paris (1956) and Bleu Blanc Rouge (1998) Tuesday, February 25 Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou studied Law and Political Science in Brazzaville and in Paris. While pursing his writing he has acted as legal consultant for the French Company Suez-Lyonnaise des Eaux. He is currently Visiting Distinguished Artist at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He has published six volumes of poetry and four novels, Bleu Blanc Rouge (1998), L’enterrement de ma mere (2000), Et Dieu suel sait comment je dors (2001), and Les Petits-fils négres de Vercingetorix (2002). His fifth novel will come out in Paris in September 2003. He has written short stories and articles as well. He received the Grand Prix littéraire de l’Afrique noire for his first novel in 1999.
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