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Fiction in Translation: International Writers and Underrepresented Perspectives at Emory

A LibGuide highlighting popular literary works written by international authors in Emory's collection. The focus is on works translated into English and underrepresented perspectives in these regions.

Tierno Monénembo

Tierno Monénembo

Tierno Monénembo was born in 1947 in Guinea. He is an academic and a novelist. He has a doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Lyon in France.  He has been a faculty member at Middlebury College. Monénembo was awarded the Grand Prix de la Francophonie in 2017.

 

Translated Titles by Tierno Monénembo

Peuls

Tierno Monénembo imagines an epic history of the Fulani (Peul), a community of primarily Muslim nomads spread across Western Africa.

The Oldest Orphan

Tierno Monénembo was among the African authors invited to Rwanda after the 1994 Tutsi-Hutu massacre to ‘write genocide into memory.’ In his novel The Oldest Orphan, that is precisely what Monénembo does, to devastating effect. Powerful testimony to an unspeakable historical reality, this story is told by an adolescent on death row in a prison in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.