"The blue trio", Ken Bugul's new novel-tale on migration and freedom
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Ken Bugul speaks at Pascal Paradou's microphone about his latest novel “Trio bleu” (African Presence).
© Cécile Lavolot / RFI
By: Pascal Paradou
1 min
Senegalese author Ken Bugul, winner in 1999 of the Black African Literary Grand Prix for
Riwan ou le chemin de sable,
returns at the end of 2021 with a new novel
Le trio bleu
, which will soon be published by Présence Africaine. .
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When she published her first book in 1982,
Le Baobab fou
, her publisher asked Mariètou Mbaye Bileoma to take a pseudonym.
"
I told her 'I don't have enough imagination to come up with a pen name but in any case the heroine is called Ken Bugul"
", explains the writer known for nearly 40 years under this name meaning "
The one that nobody wants
" in Wolof.
In 2021, in
Le Trio Bleu
, she talks about migrations, in particular that of her main character, Gora.
Gora is in his thirties who left the Senegalese province of Djoloff for France, known as “
Rewma
” (“the country” in Wolof).
This story with the dimensions of a fairy tale evokes above all the freedom of its characters who are "
like birds
".
Guest
:
Ken Bugul.
His new novel
Le trio bleu
will soon be published by
Présence Africaine
.
► Ken Bugul also chaired
the jury for the 2021 RFI Theater Prize
won by
Haitian writer Jean d'Amérique.
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