N’Sondé, Wilfried

Biography

Born in 1968 in Brazzaville, Wilfried N’Sondé grew up in the Paris  region and studied political science in the capital before relocating to Berlin, where he lived for twenty-five years. These days he lives in Lyon. He is the author of five novels published by Actes Sud: Le Coeur des enfants léopards (2007, Prix des Cinq Continents de la francophonie and Prix Senghor de la création littéraire; Babel n° 1001), Le Silence des esprits (2010), Fleur de béton (2012) and Berlinoise (2015) and Un océan, deux mers, trois continents (2018), which won some dozen literary prizes including the Prix Ahmadou Kourouma, Prix France Bleu / Page des libraires and Prix des lecteurs de L’Express/ BFMTV.