{"id":58814,"date":"2022-03-01T17:29:29","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T17:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/events\/discussion-blaise-ndala\/"},"modified":"2023-08-23T07:39:37","modified_gmt":"2023-08-23T07:39:37","slug":"discussion-blaise-ndala","status":"publish","type":"app_event","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/discussion-blaise-ndala\/","title":{"rendered":"A Discussion with Blaise Ndala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born and raised in Lusanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, <strong>Blaise Ndala<\/strong>\u00a0found a passion for literature from his two teacher parents in his hometown before moving to Belgium to study law, and then Canada, where he has lived since 2007. His debut novel, <em>J&#8217;irai danser sur la tombe de Senghor<\/em>, was published in 2014; it won the Ottawa Book Award for French fiction and was a finalist for the Trillium Award.<\/p>\n<p>His second novel, <em>Sans capote ni kalachnikov<\/em> (M\u00e9moire d&#8217;encrier, 2017), was shortlisted for the Grand Prix litt\u00e9raire d&#8217;Afrique noire and won, among others, the 2019 Combat national des livres de Radio-Canada, the AAOF \u00c9mergence Literary Prize, and a special mention at the Prix Ivoire for African French-language literature. An English translation will be available shortly. Also published with M\u00e9moire d&#8217;encrier is his 2021 novel <em>Dans le ventre du Congo<\/em>, which won the Prix Ivoire 2021 and the Ahmadou-Kourouma 2021 Prize.<\/p>\n<p><strong>This event is part of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.afmsp.org\/mois-de-la-francophonie-2022#\/\">Mois de la Francophonie<\/a> <\/em>at the Alliance Fran\u00e7aise of Minneapolis\/St Paul, which will celebrate the Democratic Republic of the Congo.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":58812,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[213],"app_city_tax":[223],"app_event_type":[241],"class_list":["post-58814","app_event","type-app_event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-literature","app_city_tax-chi","app_event_type-talk"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>A Discussion with Blaise Ndala - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/events\/discussion-blaise-ndala\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"A Discussion with Blaise Ndala - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Born and raised in Lusanga in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Blaise Ndala\u00a0found a passion for literature from his two teacher parents in his hometown before moving to Belgium to study law, and then Canada, where he has lived since 2007. 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