Sony Labou Tansi

Sony Labou Tansi, born Marcel Ntsoni, was a Congolese novelist, short-story writer, playwright and poet who wrote in French. His novel The Antipeople won the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire, and his other books include The Seven Solitudes of Lorsa Lopez and The Shameful State. In his later years he ran a theatrical company in Brazzaville, and he died in 1995.