Marie-Léontine Tsibinda

Marie-Léontine Tsibinda Bilombo was born in Girard, in the Kouilou, to farming parents. She studied in Brazzaville up to a master's degree in American literatures, was a librarian at the American Cultural Centre and from 1979 to 1987 acted in Sony Labou Tansi's company, the Rocado Zulu Théâtre. A winner of the national poetry prize in 1981, she received the Unesco-Aschberg prize in 1996 for a short story. The civil war forced her into exile in 1999: after Niamey and Cotonou, she settled in Canada.

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• PoetryPoèmes de la terreMarie-Léontine Tsibinda · 1980not translated into EnglishLiterature