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How to pronounce Patrice Nganang: GA-nang
Patrice Nganang was born in Cameroon and is a novelist, poet, and essayist. His novel Temps de chien received the Prix Marguerite Yourcenar and the Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire. He is also the author of La Joie de vivre and L'Invention d'un beau regard. He teaches comparative literature at Stony Brook University.
When the Plums are Ripe and Mount Pleasant are both translated from the French by Amy Baram Reid.
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