Leonora Miano
Cameroon
Leonora Miano is the author of a three novels: L'intérieur de la nuit (The Dark Heart of the Night); Contours du jour qui vient; and Tels des astres éteints. She has won the Louis Guilloux Prize 2006; the Montalembert Prize 2006; the René Fallet Prize 2006; the Bernard Palissy Prize 2006; and the Prix Goncourt des lycéens 2006. The University of Nebraska Press will publish The Dark Heart of the Night, translated by Tamsin Black, in April 2010. In French.