Sami Tchak

Sadamba Tcha-Koura, known as Sami Tchak, was born in 1960 in Bowounda, in Togo. After a master's thesis in philosophy in Lomé in 1983, he taught for three years in a secondary school, left in 1986 for France and in 1993 defended a doctorate in sociology at the Sorbonne. His research took him to Burkina Faso, Cuba, then Colombia and Mexico, the discovery of which shaped his writing. A novelist published in Paris from 2001, he received in 2004 the Grand Prix littéraire d'Afrique noire, and returned to live in Africa in 2011.

In the catalogue 1

• EssayLa Prostitution à CubaSami Tchak · 1999not translated into EnglishLiterature