Patrice Nganang
(Yaoundé, Cameroon, 1970) novelist, poet and essayist; he writes with equal fluency in French, English, German and Medumba – a Bamileke dialect.

After studying literature in Yaoundé and Frankfurt (where he obtained a doctorate in comparative literature), he taught at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University and then at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Since the 2000s, he has joined the North American university environment, being a professor at Shippensburg University, Vassar College and, currently, at Stony Brook University in New York.

He is the author of two collections of poems Elobi (1995) and Apologie du vandale (2015). In narrative, from the novels La Promesse des fleurs (1997), Temps de chien (2001), La Joie de vivre (2003), La Saison des prunes (2013), Empreintes de crabe (2018), Mboudjak ou les aventures du chien philosophe (2022) and Premier président noir de France (2022) and a volume of short stories: L'Invention du beau regard (2005). And from the essays Manifeste d'une nouvelle littérature africaine (2007), La République de l'imagination (2009), Contre Biya, procès d'un tyran (2011), L'Art de l'alphabet (2018), La révolte anglophone, Essais de liberté, de prison et d'exil (2018), La recette du porc (2020).