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Fiston Mwanza Mujila is a Congolese novelist and poet. He is best known for his debut novel, Tram 83, which was published in 2014 and has been translated into several languages. He has also published several collections of poetry, including The Great Book of the Dead (2015) and The Fire of Origins (2017). Mujila was born in 1981 in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. He studied literature at the University of Lubumbashi and later worked as a journalist for the newspaper Le Phare. In 2014, he was awarded the Grand Prix littéraire d'Afrique noire for Tram 83. Mujila has been praised for his unique style of writing, which combines elements of African oral tradition with modern literary techniques. His work has been compared to that of Franz Kafka and James Joyce. Mujila currently lives in Graz, Austria, where he is a professor of African literature at the University of Graz. He is also a member of the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

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2016

The 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature was awarded to Mujila on 19 March 2016 for Tram 83, having earlier been announced on the longlist for the Man Booker International Prize, and awarded the Grand Prix of Literary Associations (Belles-Lettres Category) on 26 February 2016. He won the German International Literature Award for Tram 83.

2014

In 2014, Mujila's debut novel, Tram 83, was published by Éditions Métailié to considerable acclaim. In autumn 2015, an English translation (by Roland Glasser) of Tram 83 was published by Deep Vellum Publishing in Dallas, Texas, and received widespread praise. This translation was also published by Jacaranda in the UK and Scribe in Australia and New Zealand. Other translations of Tram 83 have appeared in Italian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Spanish and German. Mujila lives in Graz, Austria.

2009

Fiston Mwanza Mujila was the recipient of the gold medal for literature at the 2009 Francophone Games in Lebanon for his text "The Night".

1981

Fiston Nasser Mwanza Mujila (born 1981, in Lubumbashi) is a Congolese writer. He lives in Graz, Austria, where he teaches African literature.