Author · Gabon
Bessora
Sandrine Bessora Nan Nguema, who writes as Bessora, was born in 1968 in Brussels, to a Gabonese diplomat father and a Swiss mother. Raised between Europe, the United States and Africa, she studied at the business school of Lausanne and at Paris-Dauphine and worked in international finance in Geneva, before turning to anthropology. A novelist, she received the Prix Fénéon in 2001 for Les Taches d'encre, then the Grand Prix littéraire d'Afrique noire in 2007.